New Innovation

boost your INNOVATION project with MIND !

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a startuper or an innovative SME, Saint-Étienne Métropole’s MIND – Métropole INnovation Design programme offers you key access to experts, cutting-edge R&D infrastructures and an ecosystem of excellence, to maximise your success and speed up your innovation go to market.

With MIND programme, you can get free, tailor-made support at every step of your innovation project : designing, development, setting up, funding, industrializing, etc.

do you have an innovative project ?
join MIND programme and get into action !

I WANT TO APPLY TO THE MIND PROGRAMME

MIND offers key resources to scale up, fund and launch :

Strategic consulting : meetings with experts at every step : maturation, proof of concept (POC), industrial and sales development, etc.

Funding and services : legal, strategic and financial schemes, Fonds d’Amorçage Industriel Métropolitain (FAIM) and SCR Métropoles Innovations, pFonds de Soutien à l’Enseignement Supérieur, D2IN, Welcome Pack Design, etc.

Pitch training : get trained to catch investors and strategic partners.

Formation au pitch : optimisez votre présentation pour capter l’attention des investisseurs et partenaires stratégiques.

Pre-testing in real-life conditions : test your innovation on targeted panels (BtoB/BtoC) before go to market.

HOW TO APPLY FOR the mind PROGRAMME ?

Criteria for applicants :

All projects are considered, but priority is given to those from the region’s sectors of excellence :

Innovation, as defined by BPI France, can be related to :

Technological
Product / Service
Process
Business model
Economy of functionalities
Marketing and sales
Organisational
Usage
Social and Solidarity Economy

Projets are assessed according to :

Innovative character
Market/competition
Human/project fit
Business model
Marketing strategy
Etc.

SUCCESS STORY

Dessintey – Technologies for intensive post-stroke rehabilitation

QIOVA

Laser marking and micromachining solution

Misutech

Digital simulation of machining processes

QIOVA – Laser marking and micromachining solution

Saint-Étienne Métropole
suports innovation

Saint-Étienne Métropole has chosen to develop a strategy dedicated to the emergence of innovation, one of the region’s hallmarks.

This pro-active, proactive approach is also based on the values that underpin its economic attractiveness in the service of the New World, with innovation serving to improve the quality of life and manufacturing processes that are virtuous and responsible in all areas : social, societal and environmental.

This strategy is taking shape with the MIND programme.

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