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SOME SUCCESSSPIN-OFFSWALLONIA CANLOOK FORWARD TOTRANSFORMINGTODAY’S SPIN-OFFS INTOTOMORROW’SSUCCESS STORIES.Alterfacewww.alterface.comDelphi Geneticswww.delphigentics.comEurogentecwww.eurogentec.com© belpress.comThis company supplies high quality solutions toconvert paper documents to digital informationin order to facilitate recording, sharing andmanagement. IRIS’s products are distributed to900 very large customers in more than50 countries, including such household namesas HP, Kodak, Samsung, Adobe, etc. In 1999,the company went public on the stock market,and currently employs 500 people at sevendifferent locations.These are only a few of the many examples thatcould be brought up. And yet, these successfulspin-off originated many years ago, without thesupport of the policies mentioned above. Butthanks to the involvement of authorities andother concerned actors in the creation process,new companies will not find the window ofopportunity shut, and Wallonia can look forwardto transforming today’s spin-offs intotomorrow’s success stories. ■IBA (Ion Beam Applications)www.iba.beIRISwww.irislink.comKitoZymewww.kitozyme.comOdometricwww.odometric.beXylowattwww.xylowatt.comHelp and useful linkswww.reseaulieu.be : the Walloon Entreprises-Universities networkgathers information about cooperation services between universitiesand companies (in th French Community of Belgium)www.sowalfin.be : the Walloon financing corporation for small andmedium businesseswww.ciuf.be : Interuniversity council of the French Communityof Belgiumwww.ncp-wallonie.be : the national contact point in Wallonia forthe European research programshttp://recherche-technologie.wallonie.be : gateway to research andtechnologies in Wallonia12. Dynamisme December 2008