BPIfrance, France's public investment bank, has launched a programme of loans to support the industrialisation of projects at the country's competitiveness clusters.
A total of €100 million has been made available for small and medium-sized businesses that have been part of a state-financed project organised through one of the clusters.
The loans, supported by the PIA programme for investments for the future, are each worth between €0.5m and €5m and are repayable over seven years.