The 11th edition of the regional “Innovation Enterprise” competition in favour of business creation and development and organised by Synergia, Caen la Mer’s economic development agency, was officially launched on the 4th of November 2010.
On the 1st of October, Michel Houdebine, Chairman of the agrifood competitiveness cluster Valorial, entrusted the cluster’s management to Jean-Luc Perrot, assistant director for the past 3 years, following Michel Pinel’s retirement.
During the recent cluster Encounters organised to celebrate the TES (e-secure transactions) Competitiveness Cluster’s 5th anniversary on the 15th of October in Caen’s Town Hall, the cluster’s board announced the election of its new president.
On the 30th of September, Caen’s urban community filed its application to become a certified “Territorial leader in contactless mobile technology”. Fierce competition is expected from throughout France; however Caen la Mer is prepared to take on the challenge. Past experience, technical prowess and genuine commitment from local players are among the conurbation’s strengths.
BY ADAPTING TO SUIT SME-SMIs, EMPLOYERS GROUPS ARE OFFERING THEM AN ALTERNATIVE OPTION FOR THEIR EMPLOYEE AND SKILLS-RELATED NEEDS. PROVIDED THAT THE COMPANIES INVOLVED DEMONSTRATE GENUINE COMMITMENT TO SUCH PROJECTS.
“I don’t do R&D, but rather R&F: ReSearch and Find!” Arnaud Brochard notes with a smile, when talking of Innove Access, the company he created in Caen in 2009, specialising in innovative technologies applied to property and personal security. Read more »
The 12th edition of the National Competition for Aid to Business Creation of Innovative Technologies rewarded five business creators from Lower Normandy, all of them freshly “hatched” from Normandie Incubation: Grégory Jean (Aykow), Mohammed Fall (GreenSystech), Emmanuel Giguet (? MEO!), Peter Biermans (Ophtimalia) and Fabrice Clerc (6cure). Read more »
The equality-based “Innovation Enterprise” competition has, for the past 3 years, been rewarding the “enterprise spirit in the masculine and the feminine.” Read more »