Awards
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Category
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Total Value (euros)*
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Support
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GOLD:
Best Start Up Project |
55,000 €
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24 months incubation support, 12 months training, market and business plan, Legal and IPR management…
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SILVER:
Best Marketing Innovation |
45,000 €
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24 months incubation support, 12 months training, market and business plan, Legal and IPR management…
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BRONZE:
Best Technology Innovation |
35,000 €
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24 months incubation support, 12 months training, market and business plan, Legal and IPR management…
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Application 1
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5,000 €
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12 months incubation support
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Application 2
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5,000 €
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12 months incubation support
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Application 3
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5,000 €
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12 months incubation support
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(*) The awards have a double nature: a money reward linked to each prize and various complementary development, research, coaching, consulting, educational/training and promotional services.
As Gold, Silver and Bronze winners of SIMagine 2010, you will be awarded the most successful conditions to launch your start-up project on the high-growth European mobile market:
1/ 24 months of free incubation of your project within the most dynamic telecom-specialized incubator in France: Eurecom Telecom ParisTech Entrepreneurs (Sophia Antipolis, Côte d’Azur)
The incubator is located at the located at the heart of the 1st European science park, Sophia Antipolis. It is attached to the most prestigious Telecom Engineering School in France, Telecom ParisTech. The incubator’s objective is to support, develop and coach innovative telecom and IT start-up projects.
Telecom ParisTech Entrepreneurs team is made of a network of 40 multi-disciplinary experts in innovative company creation: lawyers, accountants, innovation consultants, business angels, capital riskers,…
A 60-hour training module is included in the incubation phase, taught by experts and industrials covering the various domains of your start-up project.
As an incubated project, you will be also awarded a ready-to-use working office for your free us over a 24-months period.
The research labs of the school can provide a technology-based diagnosis of your innovation application and technologies used, through a specific research contract between your start-up and the appropriate research lab.
Telecom Paris-Tech Entrepreneurs will follow your project throughout its development, including its post-incubation phase thanks to the Company Creators Club launched in 2002.
Today, Telecom Paris-Tech Entrepreneurs has supported over 200 projects, totalling over 1,000 jobs created.
More information on Eurecom Telecom ParisTech Entrepreneurs:
http://entrepreneurs.telecom-paristech.fr/
2/ Free access to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Master of Science of CERAM ESC Lille Business School (Sophia Antipolis, Côte d’Azur)
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Master of Science is dedicated to those who would like to start and manage innovative projects either within existing organizations or to realize new business endeavours. At the heart of this program is innovation, its development, exploitation and consequences. The program covers new products and services, product and service improvements, technological innovations, and new business activity. The course of study is transversal: financing innovation, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital; business plans; the value of innovation; team management for creativity; risk analysis; marketing; rapid business expansion; legal issues and property rights; SME strategy.
Created 44 years ago, CERAM ESC Lille Business School now caters for 2,600 students from over 60 different countries. Due to its exceptional location at the heart of Sophia Antipolis, Europe’s leading science and technology park, this "Grande Ecole" benefits from close proximity to go-ahead companies within an international environment.
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Master of Science is worth €11,000.
More information on Entrepreneurship and Innovation Master of Science:
www.ceram.edu/
3/ Collective and individual coaching on legal and IP issues with experts from Kahn & Associés. Kahn & Associés experts will provide collective and individualized coaching on legal and IP issues related to your start-up project
Kahn & Associés experts will provide collective and individualized coaching on legal issues (company creation, corporate development, legal status) as well as IP issues related to innovative technologies: IP, patents, trademarks…
Kahn & Associés has been providing a complete range of legal services to its clients since 1998 in all areas of business law and at all stages of a company’s life. Their lawyers help and advise clients in connection with their projects and all related legal issues, both in France and elsewhere. Kahn & Associés has established itself in a short period of time as a leading French law firm, and has a pre-eminent position in the representation of high-technology and e-commerce businesses.
www.kahnlaw.com/en/
4/ Collective and individual coaching on financial and VC issues with VENTECH Experts
Ventech experts will provide you with expert support on Business Plans, capital risk, fund raising and international development.
As a Capital Risk investor, Ventech partners since 1998 with the most performing entrepreneurs in the IT and Life Sciences sectors. Managing over 360 M€ of investments, Ventech selects and finances the most ambitious projects in Europe, and supports them towards their international development. Thanks to its offices in China and its dedicated investment fund, Ventech is able to boost the development of its portfolio’s companies on the Asian markets.
More information on Ventech:
www.ventech.fr/site_dev/index.php
5/ A free membership to Telecom Valley, the IT and mobile industry association in Sophia Antipolis
Telecom Valley gathers over 100 members (companies, research centers and academics) directly involved in innovative technologies and solutions in the mobile industry. The association will provide you with dynamic networking opportunities with the local companies and research centers.
More information on Ventech:
www.ventech.fr/site_dev/index.php
In the most favorable environment in Europe to launch your start-up project: Sophia Antipolis (Côte d’Azur), the 1st science park in Europe.
