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Most practices in: France (17)
A 34,000 m² Paris campus hosting 1,000+ startups a year across 30+ acceleration programmes run with global corporates, anchoring the French Tech …
Since 1981, France's CIFRE scheme has subsidised firms to employ PhD candidates split between the company and a public lab. A Céreq …
Paris&Co's Urban Lab (2010) and its metropolitan successor QMI (2022) test urban prototypes in real Parisian streets. OECD Cogito (2025) calls it …
From 2015 to 2020, Paris let three associations turn a vacant 3.4-hectare hospital into 'Les Grands Voisins': ~2,000 people housed, working or …
CEA-Leti, Grenoble's applied microelectronics institute, has spun off 70+ startups since 1967 — including STMicroelectronics and Soitec — files ~200 patents a …
France's state-backed 'tiers-lieux' network grew from ~1,800 third places in 2018 to 3,500 in 2023 (target 5,000 by 2025), with 407 'Fabriques …
Since 2012, France's 13 regional SATT companies have pooled university and public-lab patents into single professional transfer offices, filing 4,300+ patents and …
Lyon's dedicated FDI and business-establishment agency, jointly run by Lyon Métropole and the Chamber of Commerce, supports ~60 investment projects per year …
Since 1 Sept 2018 Dunkirk's urban community has made its bus network free, paired with five 10-minute express lines. Weekday ridership rose …
Since 2004, France's ANRU has invested over €45 billion demolishing, rebuilding and redesigning housing in hundreds of deprived neighbourhoods, while the state …
Choose Paris Region is the Île-de-France Region's official attractiveness agency. In 2022 it directly facilitated 308 FDI projects creating 7,749 jobs (≈75% …
Dunkirk made its bus network free in September 2018 alongside a network redesign. Eight months on, bus use was +65% on weekdays …
France's BSPCE scheme (1998 finance law) lets young unlisted firms grant staff the right to buy shares at a fixed price with …
Paris has calmed 300+ streets in front of schools, about half of nursery and primary schools; early studies report 10–30% lower NO2 …
Paris offered 23 municipal sites via an innovation-led competition (815 bids); 22 winners promised ~€1.3bn private investment, but delivery was slow and …
France's French Tech Visa, running since 2017, has enabled over 1,200 companies to recruit foreign tech employees and issued roughly 1,150 employee …
Founded in 1969 on 2,400 forested hectares near Nice, Sophia Antipolis grew from one company in 1974 to over 1,300 by 2012, …
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