Ecosystems Flashcards
What is an incubator?
A physical location that provides workspace, shared infrastructure services, and community networking for highly innovative companies, typically against a fee.
What is early incubation?
Your home or a coworking space where the ideas are formed.
What is growth support?
After the creation begins it is where special funding vehicles and accelerators are.
What is an entrepreneurial ecosystem?
A network of organizations, talents, and resources that enable entrepreneurs to quickly find what they need at each stage of growth.
What are the elements of the ecosystem?
Entrepreneurs, Talent: to help companies grow, Knowledge and resources, Leaders to convene entrepreneurs, Culture: rich in social capital.
How is Lille’s startup ecosystem?
138 startups, 8th in France and 64th in Western Europe.
What is an innovation ecosystem?
A network of organizations including startups, universities, research institutions and government agencies, that collaborate to foster innovation in a specific sector or region.
What are the sectors in Hauts-de-France?
Fintech, Meditech, Deeptech, AI.
What is Euratech?
Incubator, one of the first in France founded in 2009. In a decade 6500 jobs have been created by startups from the Euratech.
What is Station F?
Incubator in Paris, one of the most famous in France, aligned with the French Tech Label.
What is the French Tech Label?
A national strategy to support startups.
What is the La French Tech Label?
Awarded to cities recognised for their ecosystem of startups.
What are the French Tech capitals?
Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Rennes, Toulouse.
What is the Nice & Sophia Antipolis ecosystem?
Focus on sustainable technology, strong emphasis on cleantech, health tech, and AI.
Which are the incubators in the ecosystem?
The Tech Forward Incubator based in Nice.
What is the Toulouse ecosystem?
Aviation, space tech, defense, robotics, National Center for Scientific Research.
What are the general resources used to evaluate startup ecosystem fit?
Industry focus, Resource strengths.
What are the personal resources used to evaluate startup ecosystem fit?
Embeddedness and personal network, Cultural capital in the region.
