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Foremost findings: Open Innovation eco-systems
Each partner Country has been seen committed, even though to different extent, in creating necessary
conditions for the development of Open Innovation and the adoption of its model and paradigm. Some
national and local institutions have issued major plans and programs of incentives to boost Open
Innovation, and enforced laws and regulations in order to favour and stimulate Open Innovation approach
and solutions. Here below the results of the Survey carried out during the Focus groups on the two project
clusters.

Cluster 1

France
In France, part of the public expenditure is intended for innovation. According to the French approach the
purpose of innovation aid is to support organizational innovations and company process, but also the
creation, feasibility and prototyping, with a view to the industrialization and marketing of new products
and services. There are several innovation support plans in France, the largest being France 2030 (€34
billion) and the Future Investment Plan (€20 billion). They are broken down into calls for national projects
to which companies and institutions apply. The projects are studied and financed according to the
documented amounts.
The PIA (PIA Future Investment Plan), sets help for young entrepreneurs who develop their project and
the regions are doing a great deal of work, in particular with their business incubators. This budget is
mainly intended for SMEs to enable them to be competitive with other companies. This money is
intended to stimulate French growth. This funds are managed by BPI (Public Investment Bank) or by Local
authorities (department, region, etc.) have a certain budget allocated to innovation. This funds are is
distributed through grants.
BPI (Public Investment Bank) has the role of distributing this funds to the most deserving projects. To do
this, this organization organizes or attends innovation competitions where the best projects are
rewarded. Bpifrance mission is the financing and development of companies and innovation. Funding for
innovation, mainly in the form of bank loans (innovation loans, start-up loans) and, to a lesser extent, in
the form of subsidies (State/Regions).
Bpifrance manages several innovation support schemes:
- Individual aid for innovation. A distinction can be made between aid for the feasibility of the innovation,
which intended to help in the preparation of an RDI project, aid for the development of innovation, which
aim to help companies carry out an RDI project with or without collaboration. These aids include the
French Tech Grants (BFT), which aim to support the development of strong start-up potential;
- Competitions: The World Competition of Innovation (CMI), targets projects with high technological
potential and aims to make emerging from leading companies in their field;
- Innovation competition - which contributes to financing of innovative projects led by start-ups, financed
by the PIA (future investment plan) and regions.
- The National Fund for the Digital Society (FSN) - brings together many calls for projects, relating to uses,
services and digital content innovative. It notably includes digital innovation competitions, which help
mainly smaller companies for their innovative digital projects, on the various subjects (data economy,
digital uses, connected objects, etc.)

OPEN4U: intrOducing Practices in opEn innovatioN 4U - project number 2022-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000085295
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