Technopark Maroc — Morocco's First Technology Incubator Network
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Morocco's first tech incubator (2001): 6 sites, 450+ resident companies, 3,000+ startups supported over 24 years, 15,000+ jobs created, 86% …
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Technopole de La Réunion — Twenty Years of Island Incubation Turn 83 Projects Into 51 Companies
Réunion · Saint-Denis · See the Réunion profile · See the Saint-Denis profile
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 83% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
Since 2003, Réunion's public-private Technopole incubator has evaluated roughly 30 projects a year, incubating 83 in total, of which 51 became companies employing over 210 people, with 85% still active — for about €3.7m invested.
83
Projects incubated since 2003
51
Projects that became registered companies
210+
Jobs created (direct + indirect)
3700000 EUR
Incubator investment
85 %
Companies created still active
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- Technopole de La Réunion (MESRI-labelled business incubator)
- Period
- 2001–present (incubator tracked since 2003)
- Keywords
- SME innovation support, incubation, ICT, environment, agribusiness, health & biotech
Context
Technopole de La Réunion was created in 2001 through a joint effort of the island's public institutions, higher-education and research bodies, training providers and businesses, operating two science and technology parks (Technor, Techsud) plus a MESRI-labelled business incubator.
Activities
The incubator evaluates roughly 30 projects a year across ICT, environment, agribusiness, health/biotechnology and emerging sectors.
Results
Since 2003, 83 projects have been incubated, of which 71 completed incubation and 51 became registered companies, credited with creating more than 210 direct and indirect jobs on an incubator investment of about EUR 3.7 million; 85% of companies created were reported still active.
Conclusions
These figures are self-reported by the incubator to trade and regional press rather than published in an independently audited impact evaluation; a separately reported 'transformation rate' of 76% and a somewhat different job count likely reflect a different reporting date or narrower measure.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Medium (€50k–€500k)
- Time to results
- Long (> 3 years)
- Staffing & skills
- Technopole de La Réunion incubator team (Technor, Saint-Denis; Techsud, Saint-Pierre)
Conditions for success
- MESRI labelling giving national institutional recognition
- sector diversification across ICT, environment, agribusiness and health/biotech reducing concentration risk
Common failure modes
- no third-party academic study verifying the survival or job-creation figures was found
Commonly funded by
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-09-15
- Technopole de La Réunion (MESRI-labelled business incubator) — accessed 2026-09-15
- FrenchWeb: L'innovation à La Réunion (incubator figures) — accessed 2026-09-15
- LINFO.re: La Technopole soutient la création d'entreprises — accessed 2026-09-15
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