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5 main lines of action
FINANCE INNOVATION brings together and enhances the marketplace's potential in terms of research and innovation by fostering synergies between businesses, research labs and academics. The cluster fulfils a dual mission as a facilitator for entrepreneurs and as a hub to identify, along with financial and academic players, major technological market trends:
1. Financing of SME's and innovation
- Design and set up of support services for the SME's of the financial sector, with several R&D projects brought to public financing sources (FUI, ANR, OSEO).
- A business incubator for financial startups has been approved by the City of Paris. The project is under development.
- Polinvest, an inter-cluster support team, has been launched in February 2010. It is dedicated to helping SME's from all business clusters raise funds.
2. Research and financial innovation
- Creation of Institut Louis Bachelier (ILB), a service and exchange centre dedicated to researchers in the fields of Finance and Insurance.
- 15 research chairs in Finance, on topics including : "Finance and social innovation", "Finance and investment banking", "Risks". ILB is meant to promote and coordinate these initiatives.
3. Training in finance
- Launch of the European Institute of Financial Regulation (EIFR), whose aim is contribute to convergences and common understanding at a pan-European level between professionals and regulators.
- Study of Masters in Finance.
4. European platform of financial information
- Two projects, sponsored by AFG and the asset management industry, are about developing a financial information platform on savings and investment in Europe, and an OPCVM referential. Both will allow researchers to work on European data.
5. Social and environmental innovation in finance
- The Europlace Institute of Finance (EIF) has launched a research chair on Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), with AFG, IDEI Toulouse and Ecole Polytechnique.
- The EIF has also created research chair entitled "Finance and sustainable development", with the support of Calyon and EDF (with Université Paris-Dauphine).
- FINANCE INNOVATION approved in October 2008 the Risk Manager Sans Frontière project, which aims at developping risk assessment tools for micro-finance institutions.
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