After making it one of the priority sectors in its “Regional Plan for Economic Development, Innovation and Internationalisation”, Impact 2028, the Île-de-France Region signed a strategic partnership with the “Cosmetic Valley” Competitiveness Cluster on 16 January 2023.
**Photo: Alexandra Dublanche, Vice-President of the Île-de-France Region in charge of Recovery, Attractiveness, Economic Development and Innovation and President of Choose Paris Region, and Marc-Antoine Jamet, President of Cosmetic Valley*
The objective of this agreement is, first of all, to build a business network from the pool of Ile-de-France cosmetic companies, to make it a real efficient and coherent industrial fabric, to accelerate its R&D projects and to help the companies that will join it to develop internationally, thus reinforcing the strong points of the Ile-de-France economy in the field of “beauty”: testing, measurements, olfaction and artificial intelligence.
The ambition of this new association is also to create, in Ile-de-France, on the model of Fashion Week, a Cosmetic Week with a worldwide resonance. This event, combining site openings, demonstrations, workshops, etc., should offer a strong international visibility to the French cosmetics industry. Without equivalent in Europe to date, this event must allow to better connect ETI, TPE/PME, start-ups, large companies and research institutes and to make the general public perceive the work and the methods.
Marc-Antoine Jamet, President of Cosmetic Valley said: “A world leadership position must be earned and defended. It requires a strategy, objectives and allies. The partnership …
