How Corporations and Startups Can Collaborate to Accelerate VR/AR Innovation; Greenlight VR to Moderate Expert Panel
Open Innovation

How Corporations and Startups Can Collaborate to Accelerate VR/AR Innovation; Greenlight VR to Moderate Expert Panel

Next week, the Open Innovation Club will host a TechMeeting focused on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to explore the potential of this new field and showcase American startups. Clifton Dawson, President at Greenlight VR, a business intelligence firm for the virtual and augmented reality industry, will moderate a panel with senior technology executives titled The … Continue reading

Interview with Phoebe Kwan, External Venture Strategy Director, Saint-Gobain
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Interview with Phoebe Kwan, External Venture Strategy Director, Saint-Gobain

Phoebe Kwan is a Director at NOVA, the External Venturing arm of Saint-Gobain. Saint-Gobain is a French multinational company, world leader in the habitat and construction markets. The company designs, manufactures and distributes building materials, providing innovative solutions to the challenges of growth, energy efficiency and environmental protection. We had the pleasure of talking with … Continue reading

Retail Innovation Tech Meeting in Paris
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Retail Innovation Tech Meeting in Paris

    Have you developed or are you looking for solutions that address retail transformation, client relationship, big data & analytics, payment, user experience, predictive analytics…? Our next Tech Meeting in Paris is for you!  When: Thursday April 14, 2016 Where: Paris Region Entreprises, 11 rue Cambrai, 75019 Paris Format 5 minute pitches in the … Continue reading

How to Protect Against Cyber Security Threats
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How to Protect Against Cyber Security Threats

Cybersecurity is a growing concern in our societies. A working paper by The Institute for Information Security & Privacy at Georgia Tech, presents new evidence about the rapid shift to encryption, such as the HTTPS version of the basic web protocol. Current predictions estimate that 70% of Internet traffic will be encrypted by 2016! Corporations … Continue reading

FUNKY BOTS’ SMASHING TRAJECTORY: how to level up with the ALCATEL Accelerator
Mobile / Open Innovation

FUNKY BOTS’ SMASHING TRAJECTORY: how to level up with the ALCATEL Accelerator

We’re proud to announce that Funky Bots, an ALCATEL Innovation Accelerator laureate, has hit several home runs since September. Rosa Mei, founder of Funky Bots, sums up these intense 6 months: “In fact, nothing was as expected (or according to plan), and everything turned out so smashingly well. This is great especially considering that before … Continue reading

CES 2016 Spotlight on Connected Cars and Smart Home – Part 1
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CES 2016 Spotlight on Connected Cars and Smart Home – Part 1

On January 27th 2016, members of the Open Innovation Club convened in San Francisco to discuss what they saw and took away from the 2016 Consumer Electronic Show. Eliane Fiolet, co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo led the conversation with a thorough presentation, compiled thanks to her energetic research, demo testing and press conference attendance during … Continue reading

PRIME announces Season 2 of the ALCATEL ONETOUCH Innovation Accelerator in North America
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PRIME announces Season 2 of the ALCATEL ONETOUCH Innovation Accelerator in North America

PRIME announces the second call for applications of the ALCATEL ONETOUCH Innovation Accelerator in North America Originally launched in Europe in early 2014, the program was later expanded to the USA at the beginning of 2015 with five selected startups for business acceleration. Based on the success of the 3 previous seasons, the ALCATEL ONETOUCH … Continue reading

Meet Major French Industry Leaders at CES 2016

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Meet Major French Industry Leaders at CES 2016


Paris Region Enterprises will be hosting 3 major French F-500 companies at their CES booth: a great opportunity for you to explore potential strategic partnerships ! Thursday 7th January 2016, 10:00 am – 11:30am   ADP, Aéroports de Paris: the airport authority that owns and manages the fourteen civil airports and airfields in the Paris … Continue reading

Paris Region launches its new business program: PLUG & START!
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Paris Region launches its new business program: PLUG & START!

Come Meet us at CES 2016 Eureka park, Sands Expo booth no.80 842   PRESS RELEASE – Paris, 17 December 2015 – At CES 2016, Paris Region Entreprises, the French economic agency for the Paris Region, will launch “Plug & Start, Now!” its new business program, designed to help high-tech companies accelerate their business in … Continue reading