{"id":276,"date":"2014-12-04T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcarmand.com\/en\/?p=276"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:12:25","slug":"worldwide-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcarmand.com\/en\/tax-incentives-and-subsidies\/worldwide-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>What is the aim of the Worldwide Innovation Challenge?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><\/b>The Worldwide Innovation Challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/losangeles.consulfrance.org\/france-launched-a-worldwide-innovation-challenge\">(WIC)<\/a> wants to achieve a couple of goals. The first one is to boost Innovation in France, by giving to the country broader exposure to innovation and technology. Second, it strives to attract talents, entrepreneurs and risk-takers from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0This challenge can finance projects in 7 key fields (energy storage, heavy metal recycling, marine resources valorization, vegetable protein and vegetal chemistry, individualized medicine, silver economy, big data operation valorization).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Project initiators, including foreign companies\u00a0that wish to apply to the WIC can be of foreign nationality<\/b>. Moreover, it is not compulsory that the firm exists the day the application is submitted. However, \u00a0the project has to be developed and executed in France. The WIC can be broken into 3 stages<\/p>\n<h2><b>and its unwrapping:<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1<sup>st<\/sup> stage (seed or start-up): for the first 100 appointees (out of 900-1000 applicants); up to 200k\u20ac in subsidies. The date for the opening for the next round of this phase is not yet known but is supposed to be the end of the current civil year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> stage (support\/Risk reduction): for 30 appointees, up to 2 M\u20ac in subsidies. <strong>This phase is open from 2nd, December 2016 and will be closing on 15 February 2017.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3<sup>rd<\/sup> stage (development): for\u00a07 appointee(s), <b>up to 20M\u20ac subsidies<\/b>.\u00a0 A select number of Phase\u00a02, <strong>\u00a0projects will be given support for mass production during the third phase, which will open in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, this contest can be likened to a corporate subsidy in France. Moreover, it can be accumulated with the research tax credit, the JEI Young Innovative Status, and <a title=\"Employment subsidies in France\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jcarmand.com\/en\/tax-incentives-and-subsidies\/employment-subsidies-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">employment\u00a0and innovation subsidies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This unwrapping can be summarized as follows<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1040px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Worldwide Innovation Challenge\" title=\"Worldwide Innovation Challenge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcarmand.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WIC-1030x222.png\" alt=\"Worldwide Innovation Challenge\" width=\"1030\" height=\"222\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Worldwide Innovation Challenge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For further information: click here<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Jean-Claude Armand &amp; Partners assists you in preparing and winning the challenge<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Need more information?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"jca button\" title=\"Clic here to contact us\" href=\"\/en\/contact-starting-a-business-in-france\/\">Contact us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the aim of the Worldwide Innovation Challenge? The Worldwide Innovation Challenge (WIC) wants to achieve a couple of goals. The first one is to boost Innovation in France, by giving to the country broader exposure to innovation and technology. Second, it strives to attract talents, entrepreneurs and risk-takers from all over the world. 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