This network links up organizations working to promote business start-ups. Experts in 6 different fields help entrepreneurs to make their projects happen Seeking out new projects, coaching novice entrepreneurs, helping them develop their business plans, assessing, mentoring, funding and sponsoring start-ups, and providing fledgling companies with technical support

Its members include:

• Couveuse d’Entreprise university diploma course for would-be entrepreneurs
• Normandie Incubation
• The Caen and Pays d’Auge Chambers of Commerce and the Calvados Chamber of Trade
• European Centre for Entreprise and Innovation (C.E.E.I.)
• Synergia (Caen la Mer economic development agency)
• Calvados Creation (loans on trust) and Normandie Initiative
• Emergence, Caen business incubator
• Calvados Stratégie

Regional players in economic development

• Normandie Développement
• Lower Normandy Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Lower Normandy Chamber of Trade
• Normandy Regional Chamber of Agriculture
• Cebanor : Lower Normandy economic development agency
• Normandy Food Industry Expansion Committee

Semipublic property developers

• Normandie Aménagement
• S.H.E.M.A. (Société Hérouvillaise d’Economie Mixte)
  

Local and regional authorities

• Calvados County Council
• Lower Normandy Regional Council