About nine months old and SATT Sud Est -the most advanced of nine French technology transfer accelerators- has already reached its cruising speed. To date, its track record includes about a hundred projects assessed, 45 intellectual property rights (patents, trademark, copyright) registered or in the process of being registered, 18 development projects under way, 6 license contracts and options and 7 start-up projects supported… Olivier Fréneaux, CEO of SATT Sud Est (based in Marseille, with an office in Sophia Antipolis, France), manages an efficient mechanism serving an innovating economy.