ValoCité: work with us

Whether you are a researcher, entrepreneur, industry professional, or investor, ValoCité offers you structured access to the skills, technologies, and innovations of one of Europe’s largest research ecosystems.

Researchers and academic staff

Do you have an exploitable result? The Project Studio analyses the value of your innovation from the earliest stages. Innovation Mission Officers (IMOs) mobilise an expert network for collaborative due diligence. Training programmes and the IP community give you the tools to protect and valorise your work.

Our teams support you across 6 key areas

  • Awareness and training: spreading a culture of valorisation and intellectual property ;
  • Innovation detection and protection: potential analysis, invention disclosures, protection strategy (patents, software, know-how) ;
  • Research partnership development and management: collaborations, LabCom, CIFRE theses, private-law doctorates, service contracts, NDA, MTA, DTA ;
  • Maturation and funding: TRL 3–4 support, responding to calls for projects (including AMI Prématuration STRATEX), coordination with transfer actors ;
  • Prospecting: needs qualification, identification of competencies and synergies ;
  • R&D partnership management: collecting company needs, showcasing expertise, thematic events and matchmaking.

Associated programmes: Project Studio, Innovation Mission Officers (IMO), Training & Awareness, IP

Entrepreneurs and project holders

Do you want to create a research-based start-up? The Paris Biotech Santé incubator and the Biotech Accelerator (INSERM Transfert) structure your journey from idea to funding. Innovation Mission Officers (IMOs) mobilise their scientific, entrepreneurial, professional and regulatory expertise to de-risk your project and increase your chances of public funding (local, national and European) from the earliest TRLs. ValoCité also offers an innovators’ circle to connect with peers.

Associated programmes: IMO, Incubation (PBS), Biotech Accelerator, Project Studio

Companies and industry partners

Access the expertise of our 8,000 researchers. Join one of the 194 active industrial partners, 95 research collaborations, and 85 CIFRE grants. Our Business Development team connects you with the right experts and platforms for your needs.

What we offer

Associated programmes: Business Development, Research partnerships, Platform access

Investors and funds

Innovations de-risked by university expertise. The IMO model offers a unique collaborative due diligence: leading scientific experts evaluate ventures before investment. Result: better-qualified projects and reduced risk.

Associated programmes: IMO, Biotech Accelerator, Ventures portfolio

Working with ValoCité

A point of entry for every profile, one unique address:

valocite@u-paris.fr

ValoCité coordination

Stéphanie Allassonnière
VP Valorisation
Stanislas de Montlebert
DRIVE (UPCité)