Young companies' growth supported by forum

Innovact 2006, the 11th annual forum for young and innovative companies, will discuss development of innovative growth companies and start-ups as well as for innovative projects in Europe.

Innovact 2006, the 11th annual forum for young and innovative companies, will be held at the Centre des Congres in Reims (in eastern France) on 18 and 19 October 2006.

Innovact provides solutions for the financial, technological and commercial development of innovative growth companies and projects in Europe.

The event is organised by the Reims and Epernay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).

The event will be an exchange forum for the development of innovative growth companies and start-ups as well as for innovative projects in Europe.

The programme for these two days will include conferences on innovation, training sessions, a forum on capital funding, business meetings and the awarding of prizes.

Innovact is aimed at young, innovative companies, experts and support structures for these projects, and investors.

Every year since its launch in 1995, Innovact has attracted 4,000 participants from 20 countries and focused on 200 innovative growth companies.

This year, the Innovact forum will be organised around the following events.

The Entrepreneurs' College will be open on both days and will offer various practical sessions for self-assessment (management, financing, marketing and legal aspects).

Entrepreneurs can analyse their strengths and weaknesses, based on investors' analytic grids, then receive advice from investors and experts concerning the points identified.

There will also be four conferences looking ahead to the future of European innovation, looking at new challenges for entrepreneurs in Europe, funding tools and strategic partnerships with major corporate groups, as well as the Innovact Great Debate.

Prizes will be awarded to the most innovative projects, including the Innovact Trophy, the European Innovation Hopes and the European Agro-resources and Innovation competition, with an total prize fund of EUR 70,000.

The Industrial Use of Agro-Resources full-day sessions will include the international COBIO colloquium on biodegradability, the European Brokerage event with the CRI Grand Est and Oseo Anvar, the Inter-RDT conference series (RDT - Reseau de developpement technologique/technological development network), a special Capital Forum session on agro-resources with specialised investors, and an area devoted to the industries and agro-resources competitiveness cluster located in the Champagne-Ardenne and Picardie regions.

The system of individual business meetings will enable participants to expand their contacts.

Once again, Innovact will place young entrepreneurs at the heart of the event, offering them all the tools that they need to develop their innovative projects.

* About Innovact - Innovact is aimed at promoting innovation and entrepreneurship, the launch of technology start-ups, and the dissemination of invention and innovation across the board.

Innovact 2006 will be the 11th event of its kind and will be held at the Centre des Congres in Reims on 18 and 19 October 2006.

Innovact is organised by CCI de Reims et d'Epernay, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the region of Reims and Epernay (in Eastern France).

The aim of the CCI is to promote and help businesses established in the region, and assist them in their development as well as their public-relations needs.

Interested parties are invited to sign up for the Innovact business forum on www.innovact.com; requests for information can also be addressed to FTPB's press officer, Ms Kate Ambler, who will be pleased to respond to them and forward them to the event's organisers.

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