Re:How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France
by jobigoud on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:03AM
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I can confirm. At my previous job we were about 20 employees and we had one person dedicated to this. Grants for R&D, so her work was to make the paperwork explaining and documenting why it was R&D. Also there was another gov help to pay half the salary of employees for which it was the first job after their thesis or something along these lines.
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Re:How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France
by 908B64B197 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:37PM
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Wow. The inefficiency of having to dedicate an employees to that paperwork (and probably the same manpower on the government side to receive it and take action) make it sounds like a welfare/job program.
Would be way more efficient to simply drop the tax rate and make these 2 positions redundant, freeing more money for actual R&D.
The post-thesis bit is interesting: How is it the taxpayer's job to finance that? I get funding the thesis themselves but why should a company get funding for hiring someone who completed one? Shouldn't the thesis make the employee more valuable thus negating the need for this welfare?
Re:How I got the French Tech Visa to start my company in France
by jobigoud on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:13PM
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Also she was conducting "interviews" with us to assess better what was and what wasn't R&D in our tasks, so once in a while we would spend an hour not doing any productive work.
Yes post-thesis are more valuable, including to other countries. I think it is an incentive to the employer so they can increase the compensation in order to limit brain drain.