Innovation Booster Montpellier: 3 days to accelerate your idea
The first 2025-2026 edition of the Montpellier Innovation Booster (BIM) took place from October 21 to 23 on Montpellier's Saint-Priest campus. The event brought together 8 candidate projects, led by 11 researchers, entrepreneurs and businesswomen, accompanied by 15 expert coaches from the University of Montpellier's Pôle universitaire d'innovation (PUI) (competitiveness clusters, SATT AxLR, partnership and valorisation services, as well as incubators). Fourteen students from MOMA - Montpellier Management's Master 2 Entrepreneurial Support program were also on hand to coach the project leaders.
The workshops offered enabled project leaders to work on aspects as varied as project structuring, drawing up a strategic action plan, identifying financing needs, thinking about ways of adding value, writing and practicing pitches, and vision and posture. The session concluded with a competition before a jury including representatives from DIPA,Initium, Pôle mer Méditerranée and SATT AxLR.
The eight projects supported reflect the richness and diversity of innovation in Montpellier, with a particular focus on healthcare this year. NeuroModEx is working on a gene and pharmacological approach to neurodegenerative diseases; i-Senex is interested in the development of senescence inhibitors to combat cellular aging; Optimal Target is a digital tool for optimizing antibiotic treatments in intensive care; DISHI is a targeted antiviral therapy against the hepatitis B virus; the DOIAINM project aims to offer personalized nutritional advice via AI for patients suffering from obesity or diabetes; and Glioprofile - AI concerns the segmentation and follow-up on MRI of low-grade gliomas, benign brain tumors mainly affecting children and adolescents. The last two projects are part of a biodiversity protection approach with ACAB, which records whale heart activity to study the impact of maritime traffic, or an agronomic perspective with Frapam, which is developing precision aquaculture based on computer vision for sustainable breeding.
At the end of these sessions, participants will submit their applications to the Pôle universitaire d'innovation's investment and innovation committee, which will select the winning projects and offer funding to support their development. The next session of the Montpellier Innovation Booster will take place from January 20 to 22, 2026. Registration is now open.