Improving the French GreenTech ecosystem to better support GreenTech startups
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Master's thesis
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2021-08-24
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Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability
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SCI3091
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Master’s Programme in Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability
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en
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78 + 2
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Global warming and environmental issues foster the emergence of GreenTech startups. To promote their creation and support their growth, a wide variety of institutions exist. The diversity of actors in the French GreenTech ecosystem makes it difficult for startups to identify the most appropriate actor at each step of their development and for each one of their specific needs. Bpifrance, the public bank for innovation in France, wishes to know how to consolidate this ecosystem. This work aims at providing a clear vision of the GreenTech ecosystem in France, and at identifying potential lacks in the support to GreenTech startups. Based on prior literature and semi-structured interviews, the study examines how GreenTech startups are supported by the GreenTech ecosystem in France and how this support could be improved. Seven GreenTech startups and twelve GreenTech institutions from various sectors were interviewed. Results of the discussions reveal that GreenTech startups do not face any specific needs compared to other startups, but struggle to find appropriate assistance. Three reasons explain this situation: the opacity of the GreenTech ecosystem, insufficient interactions between actors of this ecosystem, and a lack of industrial R&D facilities. A mapping of the GreenTech institutions in France, and their role at each development stage of a startup, delivered at the end of this study, helps to bring some clarity to the ecosystem. To improve the ecosystem, several recommendations are also given. Bpifrance can support the French GreenTech ecosystem with the creation of a GreenTech community, by rewarding newly formed partnerships between actors of the ecosystem, and by sensitizing institutions to green technologies and their importance. GreenTech actors should formalize further their support to GreenTech startups in order to measure their impact & their efficiency and offer more industrial R&D platforms for startups to be able to scale more rapidly.Description
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Jääskeläinen, MikkoThesis advisor
Garcia, EmilieKeywords
GreenTech, startups, ecosystem, innovation