President Emmanuel Macron wants France to become a ‘start-up nation’, fuelled by industry–academia collaborations. How is it faring?
French President Emmanuel Macron at C2N, the CNRS centre for nanosciences and nanotechnology in Paris last January.France came 11th in last year’s Global Innovation Index , an annual ranking of the innovative capacities and strengths of most of the world’s economies. That might seem less than impressive compared with some of its near neighbours, such as the United Kingdom in fourth place and Switzerland in first .
Legislative changes have helped to drive this change, including the ‘Allègre law’ in 1999, named after Claude Allègre, the geophysicist who introduced it during his time as research minister. This enabled publicly funded researchers to keep their jobs if they launched start-ups or took on commercial consultancies. A major expansion of the research tax-credits scheme in 2008 also helped to narrow the gap between fundamental science and industry.
Many business incubators and accelerators have been set up to foster entrepreneurship and to establish a start-up culture. Aby a team at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy found that France had 284 start-up incubators and accelerators — more than in the United Kingdom , Germany , Spain and Italy . “Many new structures have been created, both within and outside universities, to help people launch start-ups, which we did not have 20 years ago,” says Roux.
Start-up funding might be on the rise in France, but French innovators still face problems finding investors in the country, especially in sectors that need larger sums, such as the pharmaceutical industry. According to international financial-data company PitchBook,Food engineer Marion Gaff tests the density of lab-grown foie gras at Gourmey, a Paris-based start-up.
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