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Technological support for SMEs
IFP, a driving force behind small and medium-sized enterprises
For more than twenty years, IFP has played a pioneering role in supporting the economic development of innovative SMEs, giving them access to its technical resources, scientific skills and experience in the industrialization of products and processes, through balanced and durable R&D partnership contracts.
Two types of partnerships are possible:
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IFP provides SMEs with R&D requirements that they are unable to handle internally with support to help them develop their own innovations.
- IFP transfers innovations resulting from its own research that can be transposed to business sectors other than its own to SMEs.
A variety of fields of activity as a result of the extensive pool of skills available to IFP internally
This policy of technological support for innovative SMEs leads IFP to become involved in a very broad range of businesses and fields, such as:
- energy and new energy technologies (NET),
- construction,
- chemical and pharmaceutical industries,
- the environment and pollution control techniques,
- biotechnologies,
- laboratory equipment,
- industrial equipment,
- sensors,
- software,
- industrial IT, etc.
The only limit to IFP’s scope of involvement is the existence of skills and resources available internally in order to effectively support the SME’s innovation project.
IFP can draw on the skills of more than 1,735 people and almost 50 professions or fields of expertise:
- process engineering,
- design and validation of measurement, analysis and testing equipment,
- digital simulation and process control,
- divided solids,
- material engineering,
- solid mechanics and fluid mechanics,
- applied mathematics, etc.
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In addition to these areas of expertise, IFP can also contribute its know-how in the fields of project construction, intellectual property, intelligence strategy, along with networking with industrial or academic partners.
Which projects for which type of partnership?
The business must be an independent, autonomous SME (less than 500 staff and not affiliated to a large group) and have a product or process development project for which the innovative nature has been established and the market identified.
The SME, which will be solely responsible for marketing the product or process developed in partnership with IFP, must be in a position to manage the various phases involved in its industrialization and bringing it to market.
The favored R&D partnership method is co-development, in which the contribution of each partner is clearly identified and balanced, leading to better synergy to help guarantee the success of the project.
IFP offers the company the chance to share the financial risks by funding its contribution to the project itself. In return, IFP receives royalties on the sales generated by marketing of the co-developed product or process.
This is a genuine win-win partnership, with IFP’s returns being dependent on the commercial success of the co-development. A partnership contract defines the conditions for this. This is a long-term partnership. IFP supports the SME until the product or process is brought to market.
+ If you want to consult us for your project or find out more about our activities, Contact your Regional Representative
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Brochure [in French] : "L'IFP et les PME-PMI - innover ensemble"
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