Break down the walls between laboratories and the business world, which are still often too high and impermeable. Increase the economic and social benefits of research. Bias which involve streamlining public-private relationships and partnerships, increasing the creation of businesses from research laboratories, and facilitating entrepreneurship for students and research staff. These objectives are those of the Provence University Innovation Center (PUI), which is one of 24 similar projects which had been approved, during the summer of 2023, by the Minister of Higher Education and Research. An inflection in the wake of the France 2030 plan aimed at developing industrial competitiveness and future technologies: the famous “startup nation” dear to Emmanuel Macron…
“Taking over at the end of fundamental research”
This Wednesday, a new step was taken in Marseille with the official launch of PUI Provence, in the company of all the founding members (1). “It is support for our researchers to bring them engineers who will take over at the end of fundamental research to strengthen applied research, in order to go further, but also support for the protection of intellectual property“, recalls Charlie Barla, deputy vice-president for valorization and innovation of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), and scientific and technical manager for France at PUI Provence. It is also “strengthen innovation within our sites, with a PUI that is at a good level, a good scale“, estimates Eric Berton, president of AMU.
