India, June 16 -- iCreate, India's leading deep tech startup incubator, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Hauts-de-France Regional Council to establish the India-Hauts-de-France Bilateral Corridor for Deep Tech Innovation, creating a direct pathway for startup collaboration, market access, pilot deployments, and technology commercialisation between the two regions.

The partnership was announced in Nice at Bharat Innovates 2026, the Government of India's flagship innovation initiative, being jointly inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron on June 14, 2026. The MoU forms part of a broader set of India-France institutional agreements being concluded at the summit.

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