Key figures
There was certainly great effervescence in champagne country this year! No fewer than 382 young innovative enterprises and project carriers got together for the 13th edition of the Innovact Forum. Once again, Innovact demonstrated the richness of its multi-sectoral policy, to bring together the very best in innovation. This can be seen in the diversity of the sectors of activity of the participants:
Capital goods, Food industry, Chemicals, Agro-Industry, Biotechnologies, Communication / Marketing, Energy, Environment, Sustainable Development, Internet / e-business, Video games / Animation / Multimedia, Software, Leisure, Retail trade services/Products, Materials, Nanotechnologies, Aero-space, Mechanical, Optic, Packaging / Conditioning, IT equipment, Electronics, Services for companies, Telecommunications / Networks / Security
Including 3 dominant business activities:
Biotechnology, Agro-Industry, Food industry, Chemicals (13%)
Internet / e-business (13%)
Energy, Environment, Sustainable development (12%)
Innovact 2009 also attracted 2,300 professional visitors, broken down into the following categories:
YIE and project carriers: 35%
Institutionals: 13%
Experts / Consultants: 11%
Laboratory / R&D : 8%
Incubators / competitiveness centres: 6%
Investors / finance specialists: 5%
Major industrial and service groups: 5%
Innovact 2009 also saw constantly growing European and international participation. Indeed, 15% of this year’s participants came from foreign countries – from Belgium to Canada!
As a forum of exchanges, Innovact has become the favoured locus for doing business and getting the most out of every minute with 654 business meetings taken in the 48 hours of the Forum!
Some additional figures: 2 days of Innovact involved 1,250m² of carpeting, more than 30 people in a team working more or less round the clock, 128 rooms reserved in Reims city centre hotels by the Reims▪Epernay CCI for its personalities, VIPs and journalists, as well as the finalists of the European Hopes for Innovation Trophies (not counting the rooms reserved directly by the participants).