How to test your activity in a company incubator?

Verified 20 February 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

By integrating an incubator, you must sign a Cape contract. You agree to follow a creative program, company recovery or management.

The company incubator is a full-scale test of your project.

The incubator is speaking to you only if you are in one of the following situations:

  • You are job seeker who has been compensated
  • You're getting a social minima (RSA, SSA, etc.)
  • You are part-time employee

Your project must be at idea stage.

Warning  

If your project is to create a liberal activity, to integrate an incubator into your business shall not to be a regulated liberal profession (lawyer, architect, accountant, physical therapist, doctor, etc.).

The incubator will allows you to :

  • Build your project (market study, business plan, etc.)
  • Test your idea at full scale: loan of a legal existence, actual billing, etc.
  • Test your capacity to be head of company (real life situation)
  • Access professional networks
  • Be trained by experts

By integrating an incubator, you must sign one Cape contract.

You're committing follow a company creation, recovery or management program.

The incubator lends you a legal existence and one unique identification number (Siren) (temporary).

You can thus sell and bill your services or goods to customers.

This is a support over a period of 1 to 3 years maximum.

You test your business by cost-saving following:

You benefit from a social protection according to your status (employee, jobseeker or beneficiary of the RSA: titleContent). These are sickness benefits, unemployment insurance and pensions.

FYI  

You cannot sign a commercial lease.

You must build a application dossier that presents your project.

It is analyzed by those responsible for the incubation structure.

You must defend and argue your project in maintenance.

As a result of this process, your file is selected or not.

The incubator takes a share on your turnover, on average of 10%.

Your turnover is paid directly into the incubator's bank account.

If you are a job seeker, you will keep your registration with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi) and your allowances.

You may contact France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi).

Who shall I contact

You can also contact the national incubators network of France.

Who can help me?

The public service accompanying companies

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