Starting a business Montpellier

Created at the initiative of women entrepreneurs, the CREF (Resource Centre for Development of Women's Entrepreneurship) is an association animated by women volunteers who wish to support the entrepreneurial spirit and effort. This association presents itself as a link to breaking the isolation of women entrepreneurs who are faced with questions and problems faced by project promoters. The CREF offers a sharing of creative experience. In addition to this will to develop entrepreneurship, the association is a place where women exchange, share advice, information and documentations. A RÉUNION meeting is organized each last Tuesday of the month (starting at 10 p. m.) at the Medef-Montpellier premises (Zac de Tournezy).

The Montpellier BIC (for Business and Innovation Centre) accompanies project promoters wishing to create an innovative company with strong development potential. The BIC relies on two main components, Cap Alpha and Cap Omega business Incubators, which can be incorporated (after examination of the file) from young innovative enterprises in high-tech sectors: biopharmacy, human and plant biotechnologies, computers, computers, etc. In this organisation, Cap Alpha specializes in the life sciences (technological and health enterprises) and Cap Omega in information technology (ICT). These two structures provide all necessary services to their incubated devices: offices, workshops, biotech laboratories, with shared services (reception, telephone, computer, Internet, meeting rooms). the BIC in Montpellier was named the best global incubator in the US in 2007.

The Euro-Mediterranean Association for Labour and Exchanges is specialised in helping to create a business with people in difficulty, Vulnerable, long-term unemployed, young people. In addition to consulting, it offers support in the creation or resumption of business and organizes training sessions on the management and management of small business. It also helps new entrepreneurs in assembling administrative files. Relatively concerned with local economic development, AETE is part of the local integration commissions. Each year, this structure, which works very hard in the difficult neighbourhoods and with the young people who come from it, welcomes on average over 600 project promoters and participates in the creation of about businesses per year.

Oséo Languedoc-Roussillon is a subsidiary of the Oséo national public institution. Under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, this body is a kind of banker providing financial assistance to project holders (or companies with high development potential) in 3 cases: support for innovation, guarantee of bank competitions and equity investors, financing in partnership. You can contact Oseo if you carry an innovative project that must lead to business creation. The consultants at Oseo will give you their advice (financing, management of the commercial service, intellectual property, etc.). Oseo also intervenes in support of regional policies and works in synergy with the communities, especially the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Profession Sport 34 is a mechanism created by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in order to ensure the lack of structuring of employment in the sports and sociocultural sector. The aim of this association is to develop, consolidate and enhance sport and sociocultural employment. Specifically the association informs, guides, trains and accompanies any person wishing to work in the sports or leisure environment. Its largest project is the "Stepping Stone to Employment": support and support for the creation of activities in the sports, leisure and tourism sector.