Following a positive evaluation, the government is renewing its funding for SATT Sud Est, Toulouse Tech Transfer, Conectus, Lutech, and Idf-Innov.
This funding will enable them to continue supporting projects in the maturation phase for the next three years.
Three years after setting up a program dedicated to accelerating the transfer of technologies from public research laboratories, with the creation of 14 Technology Transfer Acceleration Companies (SATT) in several waves, the French government has decided to provide five of them with new financial resources: SATT Conectus: €18 million; SATT Sud Est: €22 million; SATT Toulouse Tech Transfer: €24 million; SATT Lutech: €18 million; SATT Idf-innov: €22 million.
The decision to continue funding the scheme follows a three-year evaluation launched by the French National Research Agency (ANR) in June 2014, which assessed each of these five SATTs.
In 2015, SATT AxLR (Languedoc-Roussillon), SATT Nord (Nord Pas de Calais, Picardy, Champagne-Ardenne), SATT Ouest Valorisation (Pays de la Loire, Brittany), and SATT Aquitaine Science Transfert will in turn be evaluated after three years of activity. In the longer term, however, the government press release warns that SATTs must gradually move towards self-financing.
They're talking about it:
Vipress.net:http://www.vipress.net/transfert-de-technologies-104-me-pour-les-cinq-premieres-satt/
Industrie Mag.com:http://www.industrie-mag.com/article5864.html
Localtis Info:http://www.localtis.info/cs/ContentServer?pagename=Localtis/LOCActu/ArticleActualite&jid=1250268521712&cid=1250268518696