The General Directorate for enterprises is in charge of fostering a business environment to make French industry more competitive

The General Directorate for enterprises is known in France as the DGE (Direction générale des entreprises). As part of the Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment, the role of the DGE is to prepare and implement French policy to enhance business competitiveness, stimulate innovation, and develop the information society within a European and international framework.

At the local level, the DGE draws on the network of Regional Directorates for Industry, Research and the Environment (known as DRIRE) to implement economic development policy and carry out metrology and industrial safety tasks.

DGE's Missions

To improve the competitive edge of French companies in the international environment :

- to promote and implement an environment that fosters enterprises and employment as well as France's attractiveness

- to support innovation and industrial research

To provide universal access to efficient electronic communications and postal services in an open environment

To ensure the safety of industrial activities

DGE's Spheres of Action

Support industrial R&D cooperative projects via the Fund for Enterprises Competitiveness (FCE)

Provide support to industrial R&D via the national Agency for Research (ANR) and to innovative SMEs projects via Oséo-Innovation

Promote and enforce European and national laws and regulations

Deploy proximity actions for SMEs through the DRIRE network

Produce industrial statistics and economic analyses on French industry

Circulate information to economic stakeholders

Roll out technological and economic prospective analysis