Young innovation companies, have you got an amazing project?
Participate in the 2018 Innovation Grand Prix and make your dreams come true!
The aim of the Paris Innovation Grand Prix is to support the development of innovative companies in the fast-growing sectors operating in Ile-de- France region.
Call for candidates opens
Final deadline for submitting applications
Finalists announced
Awards Ceremony
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Energy & Mobility
Contestants in the Energy & Mobility Category develop technologies or services that contribute directly or indirectly to improving the environment, and generally fall within the scope of sustainable development.
- Reducing GES emissions
- Energy efficiency
- Green/renewable energies
- Waste/biomass treatment
- Sustainable development
- Agrochemicals
- Innovative revegetation, including urban farming
- Innovative and environmentally friendly materials
- Collaborative mobility
- Soft mobility
- Last-mile logistics
- Driverless vehicles
- Connected vehicles
E.Health
Your innovation consists of developing products or solutions for the health and wellbeing sector. You are dedicated to researching and/or transforming current healthcare practices, and using new technologies is essential. Your service, product or solution contributes notably to improving health and wellbeing, healthcare practices and patient relations, or observation, prevention and education in healthcare.
You offer technological or service solutions. User design is a strong component of your innovative approach. Your solution notably contributes to enhancing the healthcare trajectory, from prevention to treatment to post-treatment care.
- Medical equipment
- Instruments
- Health and well-being services
- New medication
- Preventive mechanisms
- Accompanying invalids, the elderly or disabled/ Silver economy
- Patient relations
- Proper use of medication (complex medical prescriptions)
- Vaccination information and follow-up
- Medical imaging systems, image sharing and use
- Enhancing the role of healthcare for doctors and dispensing pharmacies
Mobile and Connected City dweller
Contestants in this category design and/or develop services which facilitate the daily lives and mobility options of urban consumers (B-to-C). The highly innovative features of these solutions, in terms of technology or services, are their most significant differentiating factor. The services or products proposed target urban populations, citizens, tourists, workers and users of connected mobility. They enhance the urban experience through a sustainable vision of the city.
• Personal services
• Urban innovation
• Personal assistance and comfort
• Well-being in daily life
• Food and nutrition
• Sports
• Shopping, web to store, store to web
• Means of payment
• Banking and insurance
• Fintech, financial services
• Sharing economy
Reinventing User Experience
Contestants in the User Experience category develop innovations related to telecommunications, or software and hardware in general, whose vocation is to enhance user experience:
• Telecommunications, networks
• Complex, embedded or infrastructure software
• Data-mining, big data, data bases
• Operating systems
• Cyber security
• Electronics, automation, peripheral equipment
• Design tools and development systems
• Connectivity technologies
• Robotics and smart objects
• Deep learning, AI…
Moonshot 2040
Les candidats de la catégorie Moonshot 2040 ont pour ambition d’inventer la cité future. Engagés dans des défis sociétaux, ils repensent l’expérience de vie de 2040. Ils portent des projets prospectifs en vue d’une cité décarbonée, durable, où l’environnement et l’humain sont des priorités.
Ils peuvent être constitués sous forme d’entreprise, d’associations ou être portés par des équipes de recherche.
Si le modèle économique n’existe pas encore, le concept est suffisamment abouti pour être apprécié et évalué par les membres du jury.
Ex:
- Nouveaux modes d'interaction
- Transports du futur
- Nouveaux modes de travail
- Nouveaux modes de consommation
- Loisirs du futur
- …
This category can be chosen by french or international companies
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