Business France is a French établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial created on 1 January 2015 through a merger between Unifrance and the French Agency for International Investment (InvestInFrance).[1] It has the status of a public institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the Ministry of Rural Spatial Planning and Territory Development. It is headquartered on Boulevard Saint-Jacques in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.
Business France's Chairman is Pascal Cagni and Director General is Laurent Saint-Martin.
Business France work is divided into four main pillars:
- Promote French exports.
- Promote inward investments to France.
- Enable international internships in French companies abroad, also open to candidates from the European Economic Area. This is done via an international internship called VIE, which stands for "Volontariat International en Entreprises").
- Promote the image of France as a business country.[2]
Priority is given to small innovative companies.[3] Business France has a cooperation agreement with 13 regional agencies.[4]
- ^ Soyez, Paul (2019). Australia and France's Mutual Empowerment: Middle Powers' Strategies for Pacific and Global Challenges. Springer International Publishing. pp. 65–69. ISBN 9783030134495.
- ^ http://en.businessfrance.fr/ [bare URL]
- ^ Heller, David; de Chadirac, Sylvain; Halaoui, Lana; Jouvet, Camille (2019). The Emergence of Start-ups. Wiley. p. 77. ISBN 9781786304506.
- ^ OECD (2020). OECD Investment Policy Reviews: Indonesia 2020. OECD Publishing. p. 268. ISBN 9789264560154.