https://systematic-paris-region.org/
Systematic leads an ecosystem of 900 members, including 600 start-ups, SMEs and scale-ups, 150 major industrial players, 140 academics, an investors' group and 20 local authorities
Systematic in figures:
€3.18 billion funding for R&D collaborative projects
625 innovation projects
620 products and services resulting from collaborative R&D projects
The cluster's innovation strategy (2019-2022) is organised and conducted around two strong and complementary themes: innovation in backbone technologies and digital transformation.
- Data Science & AI
- Cyber & Security
- Digital Infrastructure & IoT
- Digital Engineering
- Optics & Photonics
- Open Source
- Drones
- Transformation of territories
- Transformation of industry and services
- Transformation of society
Systematic is part of DIGIHALL (DIH Paris-Saclay)
DIGIHALL is an alliance gathering two legal entities: CEA and SYSTEMATIC. The DIH might expand in the future. Each entity has its own domain of competences and work together to stimulate innovation. The two entities are located in the Paris region and have offices on the same site (Nano Innov in Palaiseau).
Paris-Saclay Digital Innovation Hub for robotics' inspection and maintenance relies on two entities:
Services
Paris-Saclay DIH for robotics' inspection and maintenance offers a range of services to support digitizing of industry and develop innovation in different sectors of Robotic's inspection and maintenance of infrastructures. Those services aim at creating the framework facilitating deployment of technologies, building connections and trust and understand needs of industrialists in order to promote the economic development.
Its geographical scope is primarily on the Paris region, but it can extend nationwide, across Europe and in some cases internationally.
1 - Access to finance
Category: Business services
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): Facilitate connections between investors (private investors, investment funds, business angels or corporate) and SMEs and startups.
Format (how?): Meetings, conference calls
Profile of DIH contact (who?): Finance expert.
Involvement, effort from DIH: Meetings with experts in funding of research, development and innovation.
Financial charge for customer: Free for Systematic members
Funding, business plan: Partly funded
2 - Project development
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): To guide customers through funding schemes and related calls for projects, and enable them to be more efficient by targeting only calls that suit them. Systematic offers a selection of calls for projects. Throughout the year, customers are kept informed of calls likely to be of interest to them, directly linked to the themes and issues specific to our ecosystem, at regional, national and European levels. Calls for proposals can be found on Systematic website, but also in newsletters and are presented in monthly webinars organised on the subject.
Brokerage, Matchmaking
Category: Ecosystem service, Community building
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): Organisation of meetings between players in the value chain to make demand and offer sides meet, share ideas and analyse opportunities
Format (how?): One event per year at the DIH or online with presentations from stakeholders, visit of the DIH, networking lunch when on site and dialogue b2b space
Profile of DIH contact (who?): Business facilitators, technical experts
Involvement, effort from DIH: One day event with participation of 3 to 4 experts from the DIH, supply of communication material
Financial charge for customer: Free
Funding, business plan: Subsidised by the DIH
Dissemination
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): Communication about the offer of services of the DIH. Dissemination of results and key facts in local language and in English
Format (how?): Information distributed through e.g. web sites, social media, newsletters, mailing
Profile of DIH contact (who?): Experts in communication
Involvement, effort from DIH: Involvement of the communication teams belonging to the organizations involved in the DIH at CEA and SYSTEMATIC
Ecosystem building
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): Ecosystem building and animation is at the heart of Systematic’s mission. Systematic’s ecosystem is centered around Deep Tech in the Paris-Region and brings together start-ups, SMEs, scale-ups, large groups, research and higher education institutions.
Format (how?): Reference information provided through the DIH web portal. Possible contact with experts
Involvement, effort from DIH: Access to networks, clusters, associations and federations to which the organizations of the DIH belong
Resources and knowledge sharing
Category: Ecosystem service, Ecosystem learning
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): Organizing access and informing about resources, databases, seminars, workshops, conferences, field trips, newsletters and other information of interest
Format (how?): Reference information provided through the DIH and RIMA network web portal. Possible contact with experts for advanced advices
Profile of DIH contact (who?): Systematic cluster Operational team (communication, innovation)
Involvement, effort from DIH: Involvement of the communication teams of the organizations involved in the DIH at CEA and SYSTEMATIC
Funding, business plan: Mixed Public and private funding
Drone indoor and outdoor flight test facilities "Centre d'excellence drones Ile de France (CEDIF)"
Category: Provision of technology infrastructure
Description of activity, value proposition (what?): CEDIF is supported by three main stakeholders: Thales, Eurocontrol and Systematic, with the aim of offering a complete platform to incubate, validate and industrialise all direct and indirect drone activities.
Format (how?): The Centre is located between Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (where there are two sports’ sites hosting world competitions and the site of the future 2024 Olympic Games, the “Commissariat du futur” site, and the “5G experimentation” site) and Brétigny sur Orge (requalification of a former airbase, which was an objective of both the Region and the State to give it a major role in aeronautics through drones).
Profile of DIH contact (who?): Coordinator of Systematic's Hub Drone
Involvement, effort from DIH: Technical support on site for access and use of flight test facilities (indoor and outdoor)
Financial charge for customer: Paying service.
Funding, business plan: Funded by public (State) and EU (ERDF)