Lille, February 11, 2020 – Fabrice Lefebvre, President of SATT NORD, and Philippe Rossinot, CEO of Linkinnov, have entered into a partnership to increase opportunities for researchers in Hauts-de-France and Champagne-Ardenne to connect with innovative companies.
Through this partnership, SATT NORD aims to inform all researchers within its scope of the many opportunities offered by Linkinnov to increase the visibility of the expertise and technological offerings of the public laboratories it supports. Their involvement from the launch phase of this unique platform will enable it to be tailored as closely as possible to their expectations.
Linkinnov®, the leading digital platform dedicated to innovation and scientific expertise
Linkinnov brings together the research and entrepreneurial communities in real time to create the synergies needed to amplify the innovations of tomorrow that will address major environmental and societal challenges.
Designed around original features to simplify interactions, Linkinnov primarily enables academic scientists to showcase their expertise and industrialists to quickly find an expert in any technological field. Linkinnov is also designed to promote its partners' technologies.
A major asset for revealing a region's potential for innovation
Fabrice Lefebvre sees this partnership as the ideal way to continue promoting innovation stakeholders in the region covered by SATT NORD.
Linkinnov offers simple and direct access for companies seeking solutions to their innovation needs, to consolidate their positions, or to develop new markets. The advantage of Linkinnov is that it can be linked to other existing tools in the Hauts-de-France region, such as StarPartners developed by Hauts-de-France Innovation Développement (HDFID) and Lilagora developed by the University of Lille, thereby facilitating the creation of links between public research stakeholders and economic stakeholders."
For Philippe Rossinot, this agreement "perfectly embodies the necessarily territorial nature of innovation. One of Linkinnov's strengths is its ability to leverage the power of an international network of expertise to meet local needs, a service that is particularly well suited to startups, SMEs, and mid-cap companies. The Linkinnov platform is designed to be dynamic and adaptable to every need and every type of stakeholder. We developed it for innovative researchers, applying the principles of open science, which aims to unleash all talents."
A French startup that meets a global need
Linkinnov aims to expand across Europe. Its features have already been presented to the European Commission and numerous European tech transfer stakeholders, who have shown great interest. Linkinnov is setting out to win over European companies and researchers. The first step will be its participation in TechInnov at the end of February, when the platform will be made available in English.