A university town with no equivalent in Wallonia
Louvain-la-Neuve compares to no other Walloon town. Planners created it from scratch in the 1970s, in the Lauzelle woods, to house the French-speaking Catholic university after the split from Leuven. The result is a pedestrian town raised on a concrete slab. Its registered population of just over ten thousand swells and empties with the academic calendar, and its economy revolves around UCLouvain and its science park, the first in Belgium.
The business fabric here exists nowhere else in the region: two-person academic spin-offs, biotech, imaging, materials and scientific-software companies. Most of them start in a laboratory and raise funds round by round. Louvain-la-Neuve-based enterprises are not looking for an online brochure. They need a product, a back office, an API or a dashboard that a first customer or an investor will actually use. The rest of the town, with its shops on the slab, practices, non-profits and conference venues, runs on the academic calendar.
How we work with Louvain-la-Neuve-based enterprises
With a spin-off or a lab, we start by separating research from product. We do not rewrite your algorithm; we build everything around it (interface, user accounts, billing, API, cloud deployment) so that people other than its authors can use it. We work in short increments, because young companies here usually face a hard deadline: an investor demo, a grant milestone or a first pilot customer. For Louvain-la-Neuve-based enterprises, a first usable version usually matters more than a complete one.
The code and the technical documentation stay yours, with no lock-in, a condition academic teams rightly insist on. That product layer is custom work, starting at €99/month over 12 months, or €79/month on a 24-month commitment. For shops and non-profits on the slab, our €29/month and €59/month plans cover the website without tying up a budget.
We come and scope on site: the science park is 35 minutes away on the E411, or reachable by train via Ottignies. For a SaaS product, scoping also covers data hosting, GDPR and recurring billing, which quickly weigh on a business plan. For Louvain-la-Neuve-based enterprises, the free 24-hour quote then sets the exact price of the scope we mark out together. After that, we move forward through regular demos on a staging environment you can open at any time. Smaller sites for shops and non-profits follow the same method, with the same care for speed and accessibility.
