Company creation is one of the way for value creation based on results obtained from academic or clinical research.
It should always be considered within the range of other possible approaches (such as licensing to existing companies for instance), keeping in mind an optimized return to co-owners and inventors is sought as well as economic and societal value creation. Many researchers wish to know how to create a startup and seek advice to do so in the best way.
Inserm Transfert has launched in 2017 this Pathway for Pre-Entrepreneurship to support researchers/inventors that aspire to become involved in entrepreneurship and to help them become « Enlighted founders (“Fondateurs Eclairés”) aware of what it implies to create a company. The objective is to offer them a tailored assistance in their project of startup creation as earlier as possible by helping them to structure their project around 6 factors that we believe are key for success: