ESCEM includes some of the foremost management schools in France. It is active in many areas, such as information systems, new technology management and corporate strategy. It aims to equip its students with the business intelligence skills they will need and raise company awareness to strategic information. (www.escem.fr)

The Marseille Retrospective Research Centre, has been involved in teaching and researching Competitive Intelligence (DEA established in 1989 at Aix-Marseilles III University). It has also contributed to creating a number of other educational programmes in conjunction with other national (jointly approved with ENSAM for DESS) or international (DESS in China, DEA in Brazil and DEA in Indonesia) establishments. The research centre, which specialises in technology awareness and automatic information processing, aims to participate in disseminating its knowledge across the industrial community, as well as amongst students from France's top schools. (http://crrm.u-3mrs.fr)

The Assembly of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has been running the national network of regional chambers of commerce and industry and the specialised technical consular networks for many years now. It wishes to take an active part in spreading consular expertise in this area to companies, and in particular, SMEs. (www.acfci.cci.fr)

The Large French Companies IT Club, an association founded in 1970, encompasses 115 Large Companies that use information technologies (insurance, banking, power, distribution, industry services). Its mission is to promote the use of information systems (IS) as a factor in creating value for companies. In the field of Business and Strategic Intelligence, CIGREF has established a study programme and drafted a report to respond to the following questions:
- What is the role of information systems today in the emergence and development of the BSI concept?
- What specific part can the Information Systems Officer play to contribute to the development of business intelligence?

By joining in ATELIS' project, CIGREF intends to promote information systems as the major decision-making assistance tool and encourage research and training in knowledge management for company leaders. (www.cigref.fr)

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is deeply involved to business development, whether through support for professionals and local authorities, or infrastructure management to promote the Touraine region. Strongly committed to the use of information technologies, it intends to ramp up its involvement even further, to serve local business players. (www.touraine.cci.fr)

Intelleco Consultants is one of the market's leading consulting firms in business intelligence. In addition to its work with large enterprises, the firm has taken an active part, in France, in many of the largest regional Business Intelligence programmes in the country (in particular in the Languedoc-Roussillon, Bourgogne, Rhône-Alpes, Basse-Normandie and Centre regions). The firm intends to consolidate its relations with the higher learning community to share its methodological approach and operational tools. (www.intelleco.com)