Concours d'innovation i-PhD — 7e édition
Supports PhD founders building deep-tech companies with entrepreneurship guidance programs.
The 7th edition of the Concours d'innovation i-PhD is a State innovation competition operated by Bpifrance under the France 2030 plan, targeting young researchers who have a deeptech startup project derived from their academic research. The program is explicitly positioned as the upstream precursor to the i-Lab competition: winning i-PhD prepares doctoral entrepreneurs to subsequently compete for …
Supports doctoral researchers and recent PhD graduates with deeptech startup projects, providing a one-year structured entrepreneurship programme to mature their venture before applying to the i-Lab competition.
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