AP-HM, new associate member of the IMPULSE inter-university incubator

In the field of innovation and research, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) has for many years been committed to modernization, innovation and research, particularly in the continuous improvement of care paths. These values, anchored in a territorial approach, aim at several strong ambitions dedicated to promoting research and centres of reference and excellence, accompanying changes in hospitalization methods, improving the legibility of its care offer, enhancing the value of care pathways and their communication, with the objective of always seeking the best quality and safety of care.

In this dynamic of innovation and research in health, the adhesion of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) to the activities of the Impulse incubator is based on the desire to encourage all approaches to the creation of innovative companies likely to provide patients with a better quality of care, but also breakthrough innovations concerning treatments, in a logic of personalized care.

The AP-HM and the incubator have already been working together for ten years, and have contributed to the creation of many innovative young companies such as VECT-HORUS, REMEDEX and, more recently, BYPASS Solutions.

Through this partnership, the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) wishes to accelerate its innovation and research policy, by having the additional support of the incubator to develop the results of its research work towards the creation of "Deep Tech" companies in the fields of health, connected health or artificial intelligence for health.

With this new partnership, the Impulse Inter-University Incubator confirms its desire to unite all public players or public research organizations around common ambitions, such as raising awareness of entrepreneurship, technology transfer or even the creation of innovative companies that contribute to the creation of value and jobs on its site.

About the AP-HM

With 4 hospital sites: Hôpital Nord, Timone adults and children, La Conception, Hôpitaux Sud, a logistics platform and 12 training institutes, the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) is the third largest hospital and university centre (CHU) in France and the largest hospital in the Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur region (France). Its missions are care, training, research, prevention and health education. The APHM is also the support establishment for the "Hôpitaux de Provence" GHT, which brings together the 13 public establishments in the Bouches du Rhône department and includes the Laveran Army Training Hospital. It is also the leading employer in the region, with more than 15,000 professionals, including 8,500 nurses and 2,000 doctors. Its hospitals cover the full range of hospital care: medicine, surgery, obstetrics, psychiatry, follow-up care and rehabilitation, children and adults. They offer medical care ranging from local care to cutting-edge treatments and excellence in rare and complex pathologies. They are developing cutting-edge research, with a constant desire to improve the quality of care for hospitalized patients and their families.

• Number of beds and places: 3,200 beds and places.
• Activity/year: 130,000 admissions, 60,000 operations, 240,000 emergencies, 1,000,000 consultations, 5,600 births, 900,000 emergency calls, 250 transplants.
• Budget: €1.4 billion operating budget.
• Research: 2,000 publications/year, 14,000 patients included in clinical trials (institutional sponsors), 1 IHU Méditerranée Infection, 3 RHU programs and 5 DHU programs, accredited by the National Investment Program. Nearly 2,000 research programs underway.

About the Impulse inter-university incubator

Created under the impetus of the 1999 Law on Innovation and Research and on the initiative of the Universities of Aix-Marseille and Avignon, joined by the CEA, CNRS, IRD, INSERM, INRAE, AP-HM, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne the Ecole Centrale Marseille and the Ecole des Arts et Métiers d'Aix-en-Provence, the IMPULSE Inter-University Incubator is a "territorial and generalist" technological incubator that has been supporting and financing innovative business creation projects based on public research for over 21 years. At the centre of a close network of research laboratories, higher education and research establishments, Carnot institutes, SATTs, competitive clusters, incubators, CISAMs and seed capital, IMPULSE is a genuine support, financing and pre-seed tool that converts nearly 85% of projects into "DeepTech" start-ups. At the end of 2021, out of 216 projects supported, it has supported the creation of nearly 186 companies, generating around 1,750 direct jobs and 3,500 indirect jobs on its site. With 350 million euros of private funds accumulated by the companies supported, it has demonstrated in over 21 years, the attractiveness of these innovative start-ups on their territory and its central role in terms of technology transfer towards the creation and acceleration of "Deep Tech" companies in the rectorate of the Aix-Marseille Academy.