Find the new article by Didier CHABAUD, Professor at the Sorbonne Business School and Timothée GOMOT, PhD student at Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne University.
Since its creation in 2013, under François Hollande, French Tech has been deployed as a veritable tool in favor of French-style innovation. While tricolored unicorns remain an all-too rare species, the revived and amplified initiative has had many effects, some of them unexpected.
"French Tech", i.e. the public policy aimed at developing a "French movement of innovative technology start-ups", has just celebrated its 10th anniversary. A good opportunity to look back at the results and prospects of this initiative. At its birth, in 2013, La French Tech's objective was "to do everything possible to ensure that the next Googles are born and developed here, in France and in Europe!"
Ten years later, while the La French Tech pennant brings together several tens of thousands of start-ups, spread across 114 "communities" and "capitals" in France and internationally, it has to be said that some regret the lack of French champions. Between initial expectations and the evolution over time of this public policy, French Tech today presents interesting results for the French entrepreneurial ecosystem... which are probably not where we expected them to be. [...]