Meeting ‘Cluster Cooperation across Europe’, July 13, 2011.

The meeting ‘Cluster Cooperation across Europe’ will take place on July 13th in the Genopole premises in Evry (south of Paris). This meeting is one of the Dissemination events of the EU project Bio-Common Tools-Bio-CT (Regions of Knowledge).

This meeting, hosted by the BioCT consortium and Genopole, its Coordinator, brings together key clusters in Europe to discuss and agree on how formal partnerships can be created around key biotechnology support topics ; Sharing Facilities, Technology Maturation and Developing talent.

VENUE :

Genopole GIP

5 rue Henri Desbrueres

Genopole Campus 1

91000 Evry

France

+33 (0)1 60 87 83 00

The agenda for the day includes :

Keynote presentation : The future for cluster partnerships in Europe - the need and the pathways

Plenary discussion panel : Finding maximum points of benefit for cluster partnerships

Plenary round table 1 : Sharing facilities - Presentations and discussion

Plenary round table 2 : Maturing technologies - Presentations and discussion

Plenary round table 3 : Engaging talent- Presentations and discussion

Full meeting details are available online here.

Business parks. Sénart, an outstanding place to live and work

Bordered by the forests of Sénart and Rougeau, and set alongside the winding course of the River Seine, Sénart offers an unspoilt environment for living and working in. Businesses located here – in immediate proximity to Evry, Corbeil-Essonnes and the Carré Sénart retail park – have within reach all the services and facilities they need to grow.

Greenparc
Bordered by the Greenparc golf course, this business park boasts an outstanding location, offering fast access to the Francilienne ring road and the A6 and A5 motorways, with Paris-Orly airport just 20 minutes away. Greenparc offers development sites suitable for premises of 500 to 2,500 m², for the use of high value-added service-sector and high-tech businesses.

Les Vergers
Plots available for the development of 5,000 m² premises for the use of manufacturers, distributors and trading companies seeking to benefit from an upmarket image and a prestigious landscape setting fronting the Francilienne ring road.

La Clef de Saint-Pierre
This mixed-use 28-hectare business park will offer 15 hectares dedicated to businesses, combining an eco-neighbourhood with a range of services. It will offer real-estate opportunities enjoying an exceptionally good location, linking the centre of Saint-Pierre-du-Perray with the Carré Sénart complex at the heart of Sénart new town.

Le Gravois
A prestigious location bordering Sénart forest, reserved for large-scale projects with more than 50 hectares available as a single unit.

Le Carré Sénart
The Carré Sénart complex effectively forms the hub of Sénart new town, hosting many retail and leisure facilities and administrative services. This urban centre continues to grow steadily with development projects including offices, retail outlets and leisure facilities.

Source: “Votre entreprise à Sénart en Essonne”, EPA Sénart (Sénart development agency)

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Region. Essonne, an outstanding location for research

Essonne is a uniquely dynamic and attractive region located south of Paris. It has a highly qualified labour pool, accounting for 25% of all researchers in Paris Region and including 45,000 graduates from many of the region’s top universities (Polytechnique, Supélec, Télécom Paris Sud, the universities of Orsay and Ivry, etc.).

Businesses here benefit from the proximity not just of higher education institutions but also of public research laboratories including the CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research), INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), CEA (the French Atomic Energy Commission) and INSERM (the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research). The area also hosts the Synchrotron facility and Génopole, a campus pooling cutting-edge biotechnology research equipment ¬– giving it genuine added value in terms of research and development.

Today Essonne is home to more than 30,000 SMEs and 400 corporations with more than 100 employees, including very large groups like Sanofi-Aventis, Safran, Danone, Thalès, Ericsson, Renault and Motorola. These companies frequently work with SMEs within the System@TIC Paris Region, Médicen, Astech Paris Region, Mov’eo and Cap Digital competitiveness clusters – groupings which help companies pool their expertise in joint projects, combining their strengths to boost their international attractiveness.

On the infrastructure side, Orly airport, the A6 and A10 motorways and three RER (high-speed metro) routes make Essonne a highly attractive location for companies seeking access to the French and European markets. Essonne’s facilities for hosting businesses include three start-up centres, 14 business incubators, five business hotels and 36 business centres.

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International presence. Essonne opens its first representative office in China

On 8 December the Essonne département opened an office in the Chinese city of Wuhan – located at the hub of the country’s major communication routes – in order to broaden the international reach of its economic base. The aim of this cooperative project is to strengthen the links between Essonne and the city of Wuhan and to develop economic synergies in the high-tech sector.

This economic agency has several remits:
• To promote the Essonne region in Wuhan and more widely across Hubei province;
• To raise the profile of Essonne-based businesses in central China;
• To build up databases, particularly in biotechnology and IT;
• To produce market surveys and industry analyses for Essonne’s economic stakeholders;
• To develop relations between Essonne and China via trade shows and exhibitions.

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Business. Orly International, a unique concept in France

Orly International is a unique concept in France.
Located in the middle of Orly Airport, this hosting centre, which opened in December 2006, is a joint initiative of Paris Airports, the General Councils of Essonne and Val-de-Marne, and Paris Region.

At the heart of the French market, at the crossroads of economic activity, Orly International brings together efficiency and flexibility, offering international and local businesses an operational work base that responds perfectly to current and future customer needs:

- ready-to-use business areas,
- a team of experts to assist you,
- dynamic support services,
- support from major players in economic development,
- a burgeoning network of businesses,
- direct connections to Paris,
- the services of a major international airport.


Orly International offers businesses a fully equipped office, meeting rooms, telephone answering service and personal assistance for €1,500 per month.


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Higher Education. Seven prestigious graduate schools around Saclay (Essonne)

The Plateau de Saclay is set to become a sort of French Silicon Valley with the highest concentration of researchers in France (soon to reach 20% versus 10% today).

From 2012, 670 registered students and lecture attendees at the engineering school ENSTA ParisTech will move to a 20,000 m² campus.
This will be followed by the Paris Graduate School of Economics, Statistics and Finance (ENSAE ParisTech) at the start of the 2013 school year, and École Centrale, Institut Télécom, AgroParisTech and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan by 2015. Part of the University of Orsay ("Paris Sud 11") should also be moving in over the next 10 to 15 years. HEC-INRA, CEA-CEN, CNRS, Supelec and Polytechnique are already established on the campus.


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A web portal designed to attract German companies to Seine-et-Marne and Essonne

Around 100 German companies are located in Seine-et-Marne, including Knauff in Saint-Soupplets, Wacker in Brie-Comte-Robert, Viessmann in Combs-la-Ville, DHL in Nemours, Witzenmann in Thorigny-sur-Marne, Andreas Stihl in Torcy and Soleos in Moissy-Cramayel.
This département has 450 international companies in all, with German companies accounting for 22% of the total.

Economic development agency Seine-et-Marne Développement has teamed up with its Essonne counterpart Agence pour l’Economie to set up a new web portal, www.paristor.eu, which is presented entirely in German and designed for German-speaking investors.

The website also offers a financial newsletter in German which provides information on business locations in the two départements, innovative research centres and relocation procedures, as well as entrepreneur testimonials.

To find out more visit: www.paristor.eu

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Panorama: a new resource for discovering Essonne

Population, employment, business, revenues: the official website of the Essonne Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) has launched a new independent online resource presenting all aspects of this département’s economy from A to Z.
Maps, pictures and charts are used to help online visitors discover or find out more about the Essonne region, covering a wide range of themes which are grouped under seven headings: Environment and infrastructure, Demographics, Employment, Economic activity, Company start-ups and business transfers, Revenues and tax, and, finally, Priority areas and local development plans. The content of each section is downloadable in PDF datasheet format.

All of which makes it easy to discover that the Essonne region hosts a substantial number of major corporations and innovative SMEs in high-technology sectors. In all, nearly 44,000 businesses are located in the département.
Six major road routes cross Essonne to the north and the south, while the LGV Atlantique high-speed rail line crosses it from Verrières-le-Buisson to Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan in the west. North Essonne benefits from the presence of Paris-Orly international airport.
Now the CCI has made a mass of information easily accessible to anyone – students, researchers, companies and institutions – with an interest in Essonne’s socio-economic geography.

To find out more about this new resource: Panorama économique de l’Essonne (available in French only)

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Essonne – one of Paris Region's most dynamic departments

In September the Essonne Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued a new report on the state of the department's economy, examining the department's achievements in terms of value creation from four angles:

- Entrepreneurial dynamic: the new business start-up rate in Essonne is higher than in 2006. More than 5,000 jobs were created in 2007, a 12.5% increase compared with 2006.

- Business competitiveness: Essonne has one of the lowest business tax rates.

- Attractiveness and cohesion: the Essonne companies surveyed rated the living environment at the top of the list. Then came the benefits of being part of Paris Region: the communications infrastructure, proximity and size of the market, training and higher education. The drawbacks quoted were the lack of international awareness, taxation and real estate costs. Orly airport is considered to be a major advantage to businesses.

- Human resources: a region's wealth also comes from its human resources. The department has seen a significant increase in recruitment and businesses’ recruitment plans are more extensive than the regional average.

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To find out more: Detailed report of the economic situation in Essonne 2008

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