FINOVATIS SAS (: www.finovatis.com) is a French consulting company (based in Lyon and created in 2008. FINOVATIS is specialised in the funding, management and promotion of national and international research projects and networks. FINOVATIS provides complementary expertise (managerial, financial, fiscal, economic, technical and scientific) to assist industrialists, SMEs, universities, research institutes and associations on a long-term basis and to meet their expectations. FINOVATIS relies on a team of senior consultants with recognised experience in the funding tools, management of research projects and networks and promotion (exploitation plans, dissemination and communication strategy, IP monitoring) of R&D research findings at national and international levels.