Klewel business trip in France
Between the 10th and 20th July 2008, I went to Britanny in order to make the first contacts after receiving the first prize of a french start-up competition (previous post, related journal article).
Britanny in Europe:
I first met Mr Jean-Charles Minier, Managing Director of Cap Entreprises, a local incubator based in Saint-Brieuc (Côtes d’Armor, Bretagne, France).
Presentation Cap-Entreprises (in french):
I had the opportunity to meet the following persons, all partners of the start-up competition:
- Mr Michel Joufflineau, president of ADE Agence Developpement Economique du Pays de Saint-Brieuc.
- Mr Bernard LeDenmat, financial expert at Le Denmat expert comptable.
- Mr Gilles Henrio, CEO of a local agency AXA assurances
- Mr Christian Le Goff, professional customer service manager, at Societe Générale, Saint-Brieuc
Last but not least, I spent an afternoon discussing with Monsieur Jean-Dominique Meunier, Director of the Funding & Cooperative Programs at Thomson. He is also the head of Image & Reseaux, an international cluster for media & network technologies.
- Images-et-reseaux (website in french)
- images-and-networks (version in english).
In two words, the Media&Network cluster is an industry-led initiative aiming at accelerating the pace of innovation to make the convergence between the audiovisual sector and the telecom sector happen and to place the European industry at the forefront of the information era.
Below is the presentation he gave on this cluster:
