Agence de l'innovation industrielle [SEP] inception
Agence de l'innovation industrielle
The Agence de l'innovation industrielle was a French governmental agency created in 2005 to support technological projects. As of 2006, it was supporting seven projects:
- BioHub, a chemistry projects to create products with cereals, without using oil
- HOMES, a project of housing with ultra-low use of energy
- Nanosmart, a project of substrate
- Quaero, a search engine
- TVMSL, a project of creating a standard of hybrid terrestrial and satellite mobile television based on DVB-
BDPME (Banque du Développement des PME) and BDPME's subsidiary Sofaris (Société française de garantie des financements des PME).
In 2008, Agence de l'innovation industrielle was absorbed.
In 2010 the subsidiaries of OSEO, OSEO Innovation, OSEO Financement and OSEO Garantie were merged to form OSEO S.A..
In 2012–13 OSEO S.A. was merged with Fonds stratégique d'investissement and Caisse des dépôts et consignations's CDC Entreprises to form Banque Publique d'Investissement S.A. (BPI or Bpifrance). At the same time EPIC OESO was renamed to EPIC