French firm helps global companies establish U.S. operations at Science Center PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University City Science Center (“Science Center”), today announced that Innovation Development International Services (IDIS), a Paris-based organization that assists small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the biotech, healthcare and information technology markets in their overseas expansion efforts, has established its U.S. operations at the Science Center. Acting as a guide, IDIS provides customized market entry strategies, consulting, sales and marketing, and event services for European companies seeking to establish a foothold in the U.S. and the reverse; for U.S. companies interested in developing their business in Europe. The new Innovation Development International Services IDIS venture, called IDISUS, is headquartered in the Science Center on Market Street in Philadelphia, and is actively working with U.S. companies looking to expand into Europe. In addition to serving as a “Total Venture Eco-System” for entrepreneurial ventures, The Science Center offers a Soft-Landing Program designed to assist international companies seeking to expand into US markets with space, funding, and domestic market expertise. The Science Center worked in partnership with the Pennsylvania Office of International Business Development and Select Greater Philadelphia to bring IDISUS to Greater Philadelphia. With a strategic location between the nation’s regulatory/legislative hub in Washington, and the world’s financial center in New York, the Science Center affords these companies ready access to a wealth of resources, in addition to proximity to a high concentration of life science and high-technology companies.
