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• The Côte d’Azur has today become a strategic location for technology and service companies, as a European bridgehead between southern England and northern Italy, and a vantage point on the horizontal axis between Barcelona and Milan. The easily accessible Nice Côte d'Azur International Airport provides a gateway to the world, with 100 destinations and 10 millions passengers per year.
• Today, the Côte d'Azur is firmly positioning itself in the higher sector, attracting key enterprise functions, such as:
• - R&D centers: The Côte d'Azur is home to the leading SCS (Secured Communication Solutions) world competitive cluster, with all the advantages brought by R&D zoning.
  * IBM, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics, Philips Semiconducteurs...
• - Central functions: Arkopharma, Alenia Alcatel Space, ASK, ETSI, Koné, ProBTP, Virbac...
• - International functions (customers centers, marketing centers, training centers): Accenture, Amadeus, European Heart House, ETSI, Sciences Po, Stryker, Unisys...
• A Côte d’Azur Metropolis is now taking shape: it links a continuous string of coastal towns, all famous and varied, whose synergy and impact have reinforced each other (Cannes, Antibes, Grasse, Vence, Nice, Monaco et Menton). And the synergies which will be created as this new metropolis emerges can only add to the strengths and attractions of individual cities and the region as a whole. The result – an area with unrivalled pulling power for major French and international service, R&D, and high tech companies.