Orange and Alcatel-Lucent has introduced Tuesday Britain Atlantic Arc, a program dedicated to technology companies of Brittany and Pays de la Loire. "There is support SMEs and start-up technology sector and communication to develop their products by providing our equipment but also our know-how and expertise," says Pierre Barnabe, President and CEO Alcatel-Lucent France. The major advantage of this initiative is that it covers both the upstream phases of financial and economic model, intermediaries, with the development of the application or those of marketing.

Thus, Alcatel-Lucent launches in incubation by offering to host start-ups or being created in Lannion (C?tes-d'Armor)."We are also here to help entrepreneurs build their business model, their business plan so they can convince investors. On this subject, it is a real coaching that can last up to three months, "says Thierry Bonhomme, Executive Director of R & D at Orange.

The component openlab provides access to some platforms of the two test groups. "We also offer businesses some bricks technological hardware and software of the two groups," says Thierry Bonhomme free credit score online . Finally, the two leaders will assist companies in finding business opportunities."In some cases, it is certainly possible to integrate new to some of our products," said Gerard Le Bihan, who coordinates the program for Alcatel.

For now, both groups have booked 1 million for the first year and expect to be asked. "We recently launched a UK competition for the attention of innovators, and the results are remarkable," welcomes Thierry Bonhomme.

"Investing on brainpower"

If the price of services are not defined, we already know that nothing is free. In contrast, Alcatel-Lucent and Orange provide a balance between costs and prices charged.

In the West, business leaders welcome these new opportunities: "We preferred to invest in the gray matter. Result: we can not buy a compressor or image encoder.This program should allow us to access these tools. But, in my opinion, the most important aspect is that inflows of trade, appreciates Gabriel Laval, who created last May a company that specializes in image processing.