Business tours. A tour for the delegation from Campinas, the “Brazilian Silicon Valley”

Following a request from the Commercial Section of the Embassy of Brazil (SECOM), the Invest in France Agency (IFA), Paris Développement and PREDA hosted a delegation of Brazilian companies on April 11th, 12th and 13th, 2011 and organised a tour of places symbolising research and innovation in the Paris Region.

Delegation in front INRA research centre in Versailles-Grignon

The tour was intended for a Brazilian delegation from the Campinas region in the State of Sao Paulo, led by José Luis Guazzelli, Honorary Consul of France in Campinas and Director of Techno Park Campinas. The delegation comprised over twenty participants, including officials from the Town Halls of Campinas, Vinhedo and Jaguariuna, and representatives from the University of Campinas and the Institute of Technology of Araraquara, the CPqD Cluster and the CIATEC technology incubator, as well as business leaders from the fields of ICT, telecoms, biotechnology, health, cosmetology and energy.

The tour included a visit of symbolic places in the Paris Region (the Biocitech Science Park, the INRA Research Centre in Versailles-Grignon), presentations of Paris Region and Brazilian clusters, and it concluded with the signing of an agreement at Paris City Hall.

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Paris Region mapped out for you :

Find the Biocitech Science Park and the INRA Research Centre on Econovista.com, the interactive economic map of Paris Region :

• Biocitech Science Park on the map "Discover Paris Region/ Science and technology parks"
• INRA Research Centre on the map "Spot talents/ Public research center"

Two days of visits organised for an official delegation from the city of Seoul.

On March 10 and 11,  2011, the Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) staged a regional healthcare tour in partnership with the Medicen Paris Region competitiveness cluster, the city of Paris, and the IAU Ile-de-France (Paris Region urban planning institute).

Two days of visits were organised for an official delegation from the city of Seoul: the director of Seoul Business Agency's Digital Media City, the director of the investment promotion department at Seoul's City Hall, and the director and commercial director of the French Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The tour introduced them to the wealth and diversity of Paris Region's healthcare sector offer, focusing on some of the region's flagship sites: the Institut Pasteur, Sanofi-Aventis and the Institut de la Vision (Vision Institute).

The delegation's first visit was to the Institut Pasteur, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, on March 10. The Medicen competitiveness cluster also presented its activities and the wider Paris Region biocluster as a whole. After this the delegation visited Sanofi-Aventis' R&D facility in Chilly-Mazarin (91 - Essonne).

On March 11, after meeting representatives of the city of Paris, the Korean delegation was welcomed by Professor Sahel who offered a guided tour of the Institut de la Vision. This introduction to one of Europe's leading integrated research centres for vision disorders showcased the excellence of healthcare research in Paris Region.

To find out more about upcoming regional tours please contact Hélène Tinti or Marie Bahsa.

Profiles of Institut Pasteur, Institut de la Vision and Sanofi-Aventis are available on Econovista.com.

Locate these facilities on the following Paris Region maps:

* Institut Pasteur on Spot talents/Public research centres

* Institut de la Vision on Spot talents/Public research centres

* Sanofi-Aventis on My map/pharmaceutical company

Introduction to eco-certified business parks in the Paris Region

On March 7th and 8th, 2011, the Paris Region was pleased to host its Interreg Ecrein+ Programme European partner regions.

This Paris Region's stage in the programme (led by the Rhône-Alpes Region) was devoted to the issue of business parks inside and around European metropolitan areas. It provided an opportunity to present the region's initiatives in favour of business parks, using a variety of tangible examples of Paris Region eco-parks (Vaux-le-Pénil, Sénart, Paris Nord2 and Les Portes du Vexin), as well as putting forward the perspective of eco-certified business park enhancement via the Econovista mapping instrument, using a method that was developed by PREDA together with its partners.

A very attentive audience appreciated the region's unique approach, which uses requalification and organisational instruments to focus on improving existing conditions in order to provide a wide range of businesses with fully renovated places to settle in.

Jean-Paul Planchou - 3rd Vice-Chairman of the Île-de-France Regional Council in charge of Economic Development, Employment, New Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Tourism, Innovation and Social and Interdependent Economy - closed the session by repositioning this topic within the range of issues to be addressed in preparing the future SRDEI (Regional Strategy on Economic Development and Innovation).

Photo credit:

Ecopôle de Sénart © EPA Sénart Communication
Paris Nord2 © Seine-Saint-Denis Avenir

Paris Region mapped out for you:

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PRIME and Arts et Métiers ParisTech announce a partnership with UC Berkeley, CA

Arts et Métiers Paristech has finalized an exchange agreement for graduate students and researchers with the University of California Berkeley.

The agreement will enable the exchange of graduate students, researchers, and faculty between the institutions. Arts et Métiers students are renowned among our faculties for their scientific excellence and their strong motivation. On the other hand, UC Berkeley graduate students will have the opportunity to enroll in one of Arts et Métiers ParisTech Master's programs and to work on high-stake applied research projects in France thanks to Arts et Métiers ParisTech's strong connections to industry.

The partnership is also mutually beneficial through the development of joint research projects. It strengthens both institutions international posture by enabling research collaboration between world-class research teams.

PRIME, an agency that promotes Paris Region's innovation abroad, is working in tandem with Arts et Métiers ParisTech and the Office for Science and Technology at the Consulate General of France San Francisco on this partnership. The Paris Region aims at transitioning its economy towards sustainability. Cross fertilization and technology and researcher exchange are essential to achieve this goal.

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Seek out the centers of intelligence and excellence throughout Paris Region using the thematic map "Spot talents" on Econovista.com, the interactive Paris Region economic map.

Foreign investment. Paris Region is the leading region in France for inward investment by foreign companies

Foreign companies are responsible for 18% of jobs in Paris Region. The main investors in the region are from Europe and the USA, and the sectors in which foreign companies are most prevalent are industry and commerce. Jobs dependent on foreign companies are mainly located in the heart of the Greater Paris area, giving Hauts-de-Seine a particularly strong international orientation.

These findings are the result of a study produced by the Paris Region Economic Development Agency in partnership with the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Regional Centre for Commerce, Industry and Services Observation (CROCIS) and the Regional Directorate of the Paris Region National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).

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Social networks. Paris Region Economic Development Agency (PREDA) opens a Twitter account

As of 1 June 2010, you can follow PREDA on Twitter, which now delivers Paris Region’s economic news in English. Intended for a broad, English-speaking global audience, the tweets provide fast information to international investors, the media and anyone else with an interest in Paris Region, its diversity and its wealth.
Keep abreast of all the issues related to the attractiveness of France's leading region in terms of foreign investment: newly established companies, Paris Region’s international ranking, trade shows taking place, key figures and Agency news.
Catch up, too, with the latest developments at Econovista: new maps, updates to existing maps, new pdf files for download, new listings, etc.

As a provider of breaking news, Twitter is an ongoing, instant source of information for more than 7 million users.
To check out PREDA on Twitter, click here.

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Webspace dedicated to the area around Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport on Econovista

Datagora, the information centre dedicated to promoting the Roissy area, has created – with technical support from PREDA – a webspace dedicated to the area around Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, using the Econovista regional mapping platform supported by 15 regional partner organisations.

Datagora, working on behalf of the relevant development agencies, promotes the region around Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport (the départements of Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val d'Oise), in order to attract new businesses and enhance the economic attractiveness of the airport basin. Datagora – founded by Aéroports de Paris – also promotes the operations and real estate offers of the Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget airports.

The area goes online
For the Paris-CDG airport environment, the Econovista/Datagora interactive economic map presents a visual display of key information including infrastructure projects, real estate offers, hotels, local taxes, business parks, etc.

A key benefit of this resource is its collection of 105 descriptive datasheets for the area’s various districts (text and key figures, photos, videos, internet links).
Access to the Datagora area on Econovista is restricted:
http://www.econovista.com/datagora/en/

To access this area, contact the Datagora team (info@datagora.com) or the relevant development agency (CEEVO for Val d'Oise, COMEX93 for Seine-Saint-Denis, Seine-et-Marne Développement for Seine-et-Marne), or the Econovista team (econovista@paris-region.com).

Visit us during the MIPIM in Cannes

Paris Region, Mipim, March 2007

The Econovista Team will be present at the MIPIM Show, from 11th to 14th March, in Cannes. We will be pleased to welcome you at the Paris Region stand.
During these four days, we will make you discover the last version of Econovista by customized demos.
You could also meet all the actors of economic development in Paris Region in our stand (Comité d’Expansion Economique du Val d’Oise 6 CEEVO, COMEX 93, Agence de développement du Val de Marne, Seine et Marne Développement, Agence pour l’économie en Essonne, Paris Development Agency, Conseil Général des Yvelines, Conseil Général Seine Saint Denis, Aéroport de Paris, IAURIF, Port Autonome de Paris).
MIPIM, the world’s property market, attracted more than 26,000 people last year from 83 countries.
If you want to make real estate business in France, you will need to come to the MIPIM and to the Paris Region stand. The Econovista Team will be glad to show you the assets of real estate investment in Paris Region.

Contact : econovista@paris-region.com

Before coming, you could use our interactive map of the Paris Region, econovista, in order to discover all the possibilities of the metropolitan region of Paris (Ile-de-France in french).

More about the Paris Region : http://www.paris-region.com/