CHOOSE PARIS REGION

Their core work

Choose Paris Region is the economic development and investment promotion agency for the Île-de-France (Paris) region. Within H2020, they deliver Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) services — specifically Key Account Management (KAM) and Enhanced Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC) — helping SMEs across the Paris region, Centre region, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia access innovation support and international partnerships. They also participated in demand-driven public sector co-creation through the inDemand project. Their core function is bridging SMEs with EU innovation ecosystems and providing hands-on innovation management advisory.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In the early period (2015-2018), Choose Paris Region was establishing its EEN presence with a broad geographic mandate covering Île-de-France, Centre, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia, focusing on individual SME innovation management instruments. By 2019-2021, the keywords shifted to broader themes — "H2020 EEN Innovation Europe Companies" — suggesting a move from hands-on instrument delivery toward wider ecosystem-level innovation brokerage across Europe. The inDemand project (2017-2020) also signals a brief diversification into public sector innovation methods.

Moving from delivering specific SME innovation tools toward broader European business-innovation connectivity services, though with declining funding levels in the most recent cycle.

How they like to work

Choose Paris Region exclusively participates as a partner, never as coordinator — consistent with their role as a regional service delivery node within larger EU networks like EEN. With 19 unique partners across 6 countries, they maintain a moderately diverse network, though their recurring TOPIC2INNO involvement suggests stable, repeat partnerships within the EEN consortium structure. They are a reliable implementation partner rather than a project initiator.

They have collaborated with 19 unique partners across 6 countries, reflecting their EEN network membership which connects them to business support organizations across Europe. Their geographic reach extends unusually to French overseas territories (New Caledonia, French Polynesia), giving them a rare EU-Pacific bridge.

What sets them apart

Choose Paris Region offers direct access to the Paris/Île-de-France business ecosystem — one of Europe's largest and most dynamic economic regions. Their unusual geographic mandate extending to French Pacific territories (New Caledonia, French Polynesia) gives them a rare EU-to-Pacific innovation bridge that few other EEN partners can offer. For consortium builders, they bring a ready-made pipeline to SMEs in the Paris region seeking EU-funded innovation partnerships.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TOPIC2INNO 2017-2018
  Largest single EC contribution (EUR 618,690) among their projects, representing peak funding for their EEN innovation management services.
• inDemand
  Their only non-EEN project — a demand-driven co-creation initiative for public entities, showing capacity beyond standard SME support services.