The Prix de l’Innovation Paris Ouest La Défense celebrates talents and innovative ideas that take up tomorrow’s challenges.
Is innovation at the heart of your strategy? Does your project meet the evolving needs of companies, accompany their digitial transformation and anticipate changes in society?
Ready, steady… apply!
Through the Innovation Pack, the Prix de l’Innovation will boost your project, provide expert guidance and enhance your visibility among open innovation players.
Any company, start-up or association developing innovations in FinTech, Health/Well-Being, Social and Solidarity Economy, Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Cities. A special award will be given to a student entrepreneur and a company based in Paris Ouest La Défense.
Apply nowThe award aims to generate synergies and ideas that build an innovation “territory”, encourage co-creation to anticipate new needs and accompany budding entrepreneurs in achieving this.
PARIS OUEST LA DÉFENSE is a public territorial institution situated within Greater Paris to the west of Paris itself. It comprises eleven municipalities that are caracterised by their strong attractiveness and competitiveness.
The ambitious economic development strategy benefits from the national and international importance of the La Défense business district, as well as an environment that favours entrepreneurship, generates wealth and creates jobs.
PARIS OUEST LA DÉFENSE attracts and drives innovative energies and initiatives, while investing in the professions of tomorrow. It brings together a rich ecosystem of innovation stakeholders including large national and international companies, such as EDF, Suez, Société Générale, Total, Saint-Gobain, Areva and Technip, as well as SMEs and start-ups.
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5 prizes will be awarded, each representing one of tomorrow’s economic challenges.
There will also be 2 special prizes: Prix de l’entrepreneuriat étudiant (Student entreprenership award) and Prix spécial du territoire Paris Ouest La Défense (Special award of the territory).
This prize will reward a product or service that improves and digitalises financial operations. The innovation will make life easier for users, while meeting the needs of the FinTech market.
This prize will reward a product or service that enhances health and well-being using new technologies.
This prize will reward a product or service that makes the economy fairer, more social and more solidary.
This award will reward a product or service that significantly improves work organisation and industrial processes through new technologies and innovation. It rewards companies who develop completely new production methods and create the industry of tomorrow through better operational and societal performance e.g. production automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and data.
This prize will reward an innovative solution to the environmental problems encountered by companies, local authorities and individuals, which facilitates their energy transition.
This prize will reward an entrepreneur between 18 and 28 years old who is a student between 2016-2018 or graduated less than 3 years ago. The project may involve a technical or non-technical innovation. The further education ecosystem is constantly evolving towards an innovation economy and the prize aims to encourage and support students, who are the driving force behind entrepreneurship today.
The prize gives the winners a real boost to develop their entrepreneurial project. Discover what is included in the INNOVATION PACK:
The support and advice provided by a high-level mentor from a large company gives winners an extremely valuable and practical advantage. This expertise covers a range of domains such as: