BSC: the 3-year review

PHASE 1 CONSTITUTION AND START-UP

• Creation of a team of economic development and attractiveness professionals,
• Organisation of governance: from 5 founding members, all the Communities of Communes, from Romilly to Langres, and the 2 Departmental Councils are now members, giving a total of 24 members.

Today, BSC is an economic development tool for all the local authorities in its area of operation.

• Integration into the socio-economic landscape: taking account of the various existing structures and initiatives to propose a shared vision and actions.
  • Example: European hemp cluster created at the same time as BSC – co-construction of a partnership in which BSC is positioned as the cluster’s reference player in terms of attractiveness and monitoring of business projects resulting from workshop work.
• Start-up of initiatives to structure local industries: creation and coordination of the Knitwear Centre of Excellence, in partnership with all the players involved.
  • 49 textile projects supported in 3 years
• Launch of aggressive external prospecting initiatives, with the support of regional, national and international players
  • Integration into regional and national project prospecting networks: Invest Eastern France, Business France, Geolink, professional logistics and textile networks, etc.

BSC has manged 313 external projects in 3 years, 27 of which have resulted in the creation of 371 jobs (8.6% transformation rate).

• Support for key companies in the region: prospecting for BSC target companies (key companies, group subsidiaries, ETIs), identifying and supporting projects:

343 endogenous projects detected and processed since 2019

120 of which have been completed, with 665 jobs planned over 3 years and €95m of investment

• Attractiveness strategy : An approach for 2021 that has led to a shared vision of the region and an attractiveness strategy based on the “Sud Champagne revealing/creating new models” regional “brand”.

In all, 656 projects identified and monitored over 3 years

147 projects completed

1,036 jobs programmed over 3 years

110M of investment

Under the impetus of its new Chairman, Aymeric MAGNE, BSC is entering a new phase of its existence, focused on capitalising on its achievements and accelerating the agency’s deployment.

PHASE 2 – 2022-2027 – CAPITALISATION AND DEPLOYMENT

1- Capitalise on the work carried out and on the portfolio of projects to increase the transformation rate and focus the approach on large, highly structuring projects.

2- Building on structural and economic strengths

• A context of economic recovery and change favourable to the outlying areas of the Ile-de-France region
• Land saturation in metropolitan areas, which is driving projects to medium-sized towns
• The maturity of sector structuring projects, which are beginning to bear fruit (European Hemp Cluster and Knitwear 4.03 Cluster of Excellence, logistics initiatives).
• A geographical location and quality of life that are a natural attraction that needs to be promoted

3- Through the dynamic deployment of endogenous and exogenous actions:

• Ownership of the attractiveness strategy by local players (innovators’ charter)
• Implementation of the Grand Est region’s Business Act #2 to support the transformation of businesses (energy transition, digitalisation, Industry 5.0)
• National and international promotion of the “Sud Champagne Créateur/Révélateur de nouveaux modèles” brand (events, trade fairs, prospecting, etc.)
• A pro-active, offensive approach to bringing current projects to fruition.