By placing businesses at the heart of development mechanisms and by targeting growth markets, the Regional Innovation Strategy (SRI), defined by the French State, the Regional Council and Oséo, intends to offer innovative projects a powerful impetus.
Although benefiting from lesser exposure, non-technological innovation nevertheless contributes towards the economic performance and the competitiveness of our businesses. With support from DIRECCTE, three projects involving collective action were presented in December 2010 following the request for proposals launched by the Ministry of Industry and focusing on innovation, creation, design and marketing.
Innovation is an excellent initiative! Yet, how can you be sure you exploit it well ? A brief legal insight into a notion which can be useful when looking for sources of capital or when selling your business.
Since its creation, Zero To One Technology has been helping sales professionals improve their negotiating skills. Comscope, the Caen-based company’s innovation, offers a genuine solution for businesses looking to enhance their sales force’s performance.
The 2009 INPI Innovation Trophies were awarded late November. The National Industrial Property Institute has rewarded three of the region’s SMEs for their innovation and industrial property policy. And they have now qualified for the national final.
Is innovation not exclusively technological? Is creativity only too absent from the economic process? Fortunately, the often opposed worlds of culture and economy are joining forces. Gateways are emerging across Lower Normandy. This new vision of innovation will be at the heart of the debate on the 26th of November in Caen, at the occasion of the national conference for science parks, incubators, EBICs (European Business and Innovation Centres) and competitiveness clusters.
IDEIS, a project initiated by a team of Caen University researchers in the field of Human and Social Sciences, is taking stock of innovative processes in Lower Normandy’s SMEs and SMIs. The project’s results are supplying data to the DRI - Diagnostic Régional d’Innovation (Regional Innovation Diagnosis), currently underway. Explanations.