The media of innovation that highlights the people of Auvergne who are shaping our future! 💡 Le Connector is an association acting for the development and promotion of Auvergne initiatives. Its ambition is twofold: - Inspire: show what is possible, show that entrepreneurship is accessible, - Pollinate: decompartmentalize, encourage exchanges. Innovation, Territory, Events, Media, Brand content, Open Innovation, and Connection

Sectors: Media

Agir ici. Changer demain. ONLYLYON is both the brand and the international marketing programme created in 2007 by the 13 institutional partners across the Lyon area who share the same objective: to strengthen the reputation and competitiveness of Lyon in a context of growing competition between world cities in attracting talent, companies, projects and tourists. This initiative brings together 24 public and private partners. The ONLYLYON initiative is wide-ranging, both in terms of its fields of application (sectors, markets) and the kinds of activities it carries out (communications, press relations, ambassador networks, digital strategy, etc.), its mission being to promote …

Sectors: National and local authorities

A community committed to innovation with a positive impact on the entire food chain. ICI AGRIFOOD's mission is to promote qualified exchanges between agrifood startups and industry players by prioritizing the impact angle. ICI AGRIFOOD offers different meeting formats: the annual Apéro, B2Biz For Startups meetings, Trophies and targeted meetings between startups and companies. ICI AGRIFOOD has a rich community of more than 200 startups, around which 29 partners are grouped: players in the sector such as Bonduelle, Ecotone, Lorge Imprimeurs, Materne, Ninkasi, Valrhona, SEB group, Vegepolys Valley, Innov’Alliance, Cluster Bio, ARIA, La Cooperation Agricole, ISARA, CTCPA, Novalim – Alimentec, …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

A system of the University of Lyon (Comue), La Fabrique de l’Innovation accelerates your tomorrow’s projects by connecting companies to the region’s technological and human resources. 💡 Our expertise We support companies and academic players at each stage of their innovation process: Creative animation: Multidisciplinary modules to remove obstacles and generate new ideas. Agile Prototyping: A dedicated team of facilitators and Fab Managers to transform concepts into proofs of concept (PoC). Strategic connection: Privileged access to the laboratories, researchers and talents of the University of Lyon. ✨ Why collaborate with us? Working with the Factory means benefiting from a unique …

Promote and support the emergence and development of innovative solutions from farm to fork. Major challenges today concern food. How to help people eat better is a real problem, as is knowing how to feed the population in 2050. Thus, the FoodTech network aims to promote food based on the triptych of pleasure, responsibility and accessibility. For us, digital technology, new technologies and, more broadly, innovation are remarkable ways of moving towards this vision by contributing to the agricultural and food transitions, and the evolution of practices. Our mission: to promote and support the emergence and development of innovative solutions …

Sectors: French Tech Media

Let's cultivate plant boldness The VEGEPOLYS VALLEY competitiveness cluster, born from the merger of VEGEPOLYS and Céréales Vallée-Nutravita, brings together companies, small and large, research laboratories and training establishments on the theme of plants. FROM GENETICS TO USES The members of the cluster are present across the entire plant value chain. They innovate for plants, on plants and through plants. This public-private, multi-sector, multi-business network brings together all the expertise from upstream to downstream, including production. Faced with the challenges, VEGEPOLYS VALLEY aims to be the global plant hub for more competitive, more qualitative agriculture that respects the environment and …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

INNOV'ALLIANCE Natural solutions at the heart of your development Innov’Alliance is competitiveness cluster labelled by the French government, dedicated to products and solutions based on natural sources. We support innovation in agriculture and plant processing, in four major industrial sectors: food, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, aromas and fragrance. Based in the south-east of France, our network gathers more than 350 members, including SMEs and large groups, research and training organisations as well as more than 5000 academics and researchers. All actors are representative of the whole plant-based value chain in each market, from producers to consumers through solution providers. Innov’Alliance mission consists …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

Further, faster. Together. Vitagora is a professional association uniting a membership of agri-food businesses with public or private knowledge providers and developers of innovative solutions. Today we provide our members with a range of tools and services helping to enrich and accelerate their agile innovation processes and to attain their development goals. Agroalimentaire, Recherche et développement, FoodTech, agtech, qualité, and industrie

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

AgroAlia is a brand of the CCI Paris Ile-de-France which carries all of the actions aimed at economic players in the agri-food sector. The AgroAlia Club, created in 2017, is dedicated to young businesses in the agri-food sector in Île-de-France. It is aimed more specifically at innovative companies in the sector: foodtech, industry and associated or digital services, logistics, etc. Through monthly thematic workshops in Paris and privileged exchanges between companies, managers address their main development issues through privileged access to qualified expertise, testimonials and collective sharing of experiences. To support these companies, Club AgroAlia has surrounded itself with a …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Agri.Food.Tech project accelerator The accelerator that contributes to the agricultural and food transition sustainable by bringing together start-ups and industry players.

The reference media for consumer goods professionals. LSA, the digital media and reference weekly for consumer goods professionals. Surveys, analysis, store concepts, innovations... Find everything that's making news in the mass distribution, retail and e-commerce sector. LSA belongs to the Infopro Digital group (L'Usine Nouvelle, L'Argus de l'assurance, La Gazette des communes, Le Moniteur...), the leading French professional press group. The LSA editorial team is today headed by Yves Puget.