European Satellite Navigation Competition

 

 

 

The Côte d’Azur hosts multinationals and dynamic SMEs, research labs, and universities. Thanks to this “cross fertilization”, the Sophia Antipolis Science and Technology Park has always accompanied major technological revolutions such as the Internet and the wireless.

Mr. Jean-Pierre Mascarelli, President of Team Côte d’Azur, and Senator Pierre Laffitte, President of the Sophia Antipolis Foundation, are pleased to announce the participation of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, as the only French gateway to the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010

For many years, the regions of the Alpes-Maritimes and Bavaria have maintained close ties at institutional, economic and cultural level. It was thus quite natural that Bavaria invited the Côte d’Azur’s technological and scientific community to participate for the 5th year running, in the European competition to produce ideas for future products/services applications in the field of satellite navigation.

After Airbus and Ariane, GALILEO is the largest and most ambitious technological program to be undertaken by the European Union over the next few years. The investments involved, totalling about 3.5 billion euros, are expected to create over 100,000 jobs in Europe.

Galileo facing a market size of 1.8 billion users by 2010 and 3.6 billlion users by 2020.
Since 2005, sales of personal navigation devices (PNDs) have soared to over 20 million and over 180 million mobile phones now feature GNSS capabilities.
These markets have experienced a real boom and this effect is seen in many sectors.
This is creating many business opportunities for satellite navigation applications developpers.

For more information: www.sophia-antipolis.net/galileomasters/uk/index.php.

  • Area of excellence
     The Satnav Cluster

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    Inward Investments Manager

    Jean-François CHAPPERON

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    Bio

    Jean-François CHAPPERON was appointed in 2008 as Inward Investment Manager within the Business Unit in charge of  Information Technologies. Jean-François’ direct responsibility covers Microelectronics & StatNav /ITS sectors. 
    Previously, Jean-François was responsible of Asian & Middle East markets for TEAM COTE D’AZUR. His major tasks included supervision of Asia Representative Office & Definition, Execution & Budgeting of Strategic Marketing Policies of Côte d’Azur area and Sophia-Antipolis International Science Park in Asia (Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taïwan, China, India, Singapore , Malaysia, Middle East region).
    He holds a Master Degree in Economics with a specialization in Marketing Management from the Institute for Business Administration of The Nice Sophia –Antipolis University.
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    • Key fact & figures

    100 membership companies
    8 world-class contractors
    Pegase Competitiveness cluster


    Companies:
    Acri, Akka, Altran, Ausy, Benomad, Cobra Automotive Technologies, Dassault Systems, Elg, EPCOS, Geoimage, Geosat, GFI, Grooviz, Infoterra, EADS, Kuantic, One Too, Orolia, RASI, ,ScaiTech, SeaSatCom, Simplysim, Sita Equant, Sopra Group, Soditech, SpaceEyes, Studiel Ingemeca, Systems' ViP, Temex, Thales Alenia Space, Thales Underwater Systems, UDCast, Visteon