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Guyane Développement Innovation — Building a Post-Spaceport Bioeconomy in French Guiana

French Guiana · Cayenne · See the French Guiana profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 83% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

French Guiana's regional innovation agency GDI works to spread the know-how clustered around the Guiana Space Centre — which INSEE puts at roughly 15% of territorial GDP and 4,700 jobs — into energy, bioresources, digital and other local sectors.

15 %
Share of French Guiana's GDP attributed to space activity (2019)
4,700
Jobs linked to the Guiana Space Centre (2019)
Guyane Développement Innovation — Building a Post-Spaceport Bioeconomy in French Guiana

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Guyane Développement Innovation (GDI), regional development and innovation agency
Period
2001–present
Keywords
economic development, technology transfer, bioresources & biotech, digital economy, business incubation

Context

The Guiana Space Centre, operated with CNES and Arianespace, anchors French Guiana's economy: INSEE's 2019 territorial accounts attribute around 15% of the territory's GDP to space activity and count roughly 4,700 direct, indirect and induced jobs, built around 1,700 direct staff from some 40 European companies.

Activities

Guyane Développement Innovation (GDI) was formed in 2013 through the merger of the territory's economic-development agency with Guyane Technopole (created 2001 by the Guyane Region, CNES and MEDEF). GDI organises its work around two pillars — research & innovation (energy; bioresources) and economic development (business incubation, a digital/ICT unit called Numlab, and territorial intelligence).

Results

INSEE's 2019 territorial accounts document the scale of the space-sector economy GDI aims to diffuse expertise from: roughly 15% of territorial GDP and 4,700 jobs linked to it.

Conclusions

No independently published impact evaluation of GDI's own portfolio (spin-offs created, jobs generated, technologies commercialised) was found; this entry should be read as a documented institutional mechanism rather than a proven-impact programme.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Guyane Développement Innovation (GDI) staff across research & innovation and economic development pillars, including the Numlab digital/ICT unit

Conditions for success

  • single-window body consolidating economic-development and innovation-support functions
  • leveraging the concentrated technical expertise of the adjacent space-sector cluster

Common failure modes

  • no independently published impact evaluation of GDI's own portfolio (spin-offs, jobs, technologies commercialised) was found

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes ERDF — European Regional Development Fund

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