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Various organisations offer help to make contact with consultants and labs easier
Expertise - to benefit from one-off advice.
Consultancy - one or two consultants from the public sector four times half a day over a period of 3 to 12 months.
Network technological service - an independent service for feasibility studies, tests, and first filing of patents in France.
FRAC (regional consulting) - contact with an independent consultant for various studies (quality control, marketing, production organisation , export (FRAEX)...)
Innovation services - preparation and technological development of innovative projects.
Technological transfer - To buy or sell technologies
Other forms of help and support to innovate, gain new technological competences or strengthen your own skills can be offered. A detailed list is available from CCI Lyon, Innovation.


Expertise (to benefit from one-off advice)
  Expertise is available for Rhône-Alpes SMI's and SME's with less than 500 employees. Sessions are organised for half a day with a representative from the company, the expert(s) and a consultant in technological development from Présence Rhône-Alpes. The aim can be to assess the feasibility of a development project, to carry out the first objective and means analysis.


Consultancy (one or two consultants from the public sector four times half a day over a period of 3 to 12 months)
  Consultancy is available for Rhône-Alpes SMI's and SME's with less than 500 employees. The purpose is to help the company's technological development through the assessment of a process (quality control, performances,...) or a product, the definition of an experimental strategy, project management, the implementation of a new technology, the study of diversification opportunities...


Network technological service (an independent service for feasibility studies, tests, and first filing of patents in France.)
  The service is available for Rhône-Alpes SMI's and SME's with less than 2,000 employees. the purpose is innovation and/or the technological development of a company e.g. technological preparation studies, tests, modelling, calculations, scientific and technical feasibility studies, product characterisation, study of existing technologies, research on previous technologies, technological surveys, technico-economic and market studies of new processes or new products, project management, search for technological partners, first French patent.
Contact us :
Présence Rhône Alpes
60 rue Mazenod
69003 LYON
Tél. : 33 4.72.60.00.50/51 - fax : 33 4.72.60.00.45 http://www.presencerhonealpes.com/


FRAC (regional consulting)
  FRAC is available for Rhône-Alpes SMI's with less than 500 employees. It provides an independent consultant from a given field for studies with no compulsory regulations. Topics on which consulting is given are very varied : quality control, marketing, production organisation , export (FRAEX)...
Contact us :
DRIRE
2, rue Antoine CHARIAL
69426 LYON Cedex 03
tél.: 33 4 37 91 44 44 - Fax : 33 4 37 91 28 00
http://www.rhone-alpes.drire.gouv.fr/


Innovation services
  Innovation services aim at making the preparation of innovative and technological development projects easier by advising SME's and SMI 's to look for independent advice (market studies, feasibility studies, design studies, value analysis, standard compliance, industrial ownership, innovation diagnosis, technical and scientific information, search for partners ... )



Technological transfer
  Through technological transfer, buying or selling technologies from business to business or business to lab is made easier. It helps those taking part in research, whether providers, developers or purchasers of technologies : businesses, research organisations, universities, engineering schools...
Contact us :
ANVAR
2, rue Antoine Charial
69426 Lyon Cedex 03
Tel : 33 4 72 91 56 20 - Fax : 33 4 72 91 56 21 http://www.anvar.fr