Labelling
Labelling the Centre's collaboration projects
Collaboration projects
Alsace BioValley, as a competitivity centre, takes on the mission of accelerating the discovery, the development and the promotion of innovation in the life science sector. At the heart of such dynamics, collaboration projects are source of innovation.What do we mean by collaboration projects?
All innovating projects, with strong technological contents and imperatively requiring the association of several players: business and public research laboratories or training centres.
These should be relevant to the Centre's main lines: from gene and chemistry to drugs or medical and surgical imaging and robotics.
Labelling the centre's collaboration projects
Labelling your collaboration project depends on five criteria:
• appropriateness in view of the Centre's strategy and main lines,
• project's scientific position and innovative nature,
• project organisation and management,
• its economic impact,
• intellectual property issues.
Indeed the ability to pick projects to be labelled by the centre is a determining factor for this cluster's capacity to face the major challenges of tomorrow's healthcare.
The fact that your collaboration projects are labelled by the Alsatian centre facilitates access to specific funding channels or to preferential interest rates.
• See Direction Générale des Entreprises, DGE
• See Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR
• See OSEO
• See Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation, CDC
Beyond these advantages, businesses running a labelled project and established within the Centre's R&D avail of various tax and social benefits.
Tax exemptions
• exemption of Impôt sur les Sociétés (IS – tax on businesses), for a period of three years followed by a 50% rebate the following two years (NB: IS exemptions should be applied for by the company (the tax form should mention the exemption and be filed according to the legal deadline)).
•exemption of Impôt Forfaitaire Annuel (IFA – yearly flat rate tax) granted according on the same conditions,
• exemption of Taxe Professionnelle (professional tax),
• exemption of Taxe Foncière (land tax) applicable to land with built-up premises.
(NB: Tax exemptions are discretionary and should be applied for with the relevant local authorities which will then examine each case (before 1st October to be applicable the following year). In concrete terms, local authorities are informed, by the Centre, of all projects that may be of interest to them ; either local authorities then vote the exemptions, or these will be challenged on a case by case basis.)
Social benefits
• partial exemption of employer's contributions on the wages of employees working on a labelled project.
Caution: unlike grants, tax benefits are affected by the "minima" rule at European level. Therefore the overall package of tax exemption may not amount to more than € 200 000 over a period of three years.
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>> Zoning
he fact that activities dedicated to research and innovation in one or several fields are concentrated within one territory also represents a decisive element in favour of the success of competitivity centres. To encourage such concentration, a research and development zone is determined for each Centre, opening rights to additional funds for businesses established within a zone, providing their take part in collaboration research projects (at least two companies and a research centre) labelled by a centre and funded by the State and its agencies in the scope of competitivity centres.
The zone is determined by a decree issued by the Council of State.
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