- Information Technology
- Environmental Sciences
- SATNAV Cluster
- Life Sciences
- Perfumes and Aromas
- Services and Corporate Functions
- ITER
- Competitive Clusters
World leading research to innovate the health sector
The Côte d’Azur offers life sciences companies an unparalleled scientific and industrial setting. It is one of the few regions in the world with so much expertise in both the health sector and IT technologies.
With a wealth of talent in areas as diverse as the pharmaceutical industry, medical instruments, imaging, biomedical technologies, the veterinary industry and agronomics, companies find it easy to hire top engineers and researchers.
Some 2,000 researchers are based here at leading private and French state-run research institutes. In addition, the Côte d’Azur has invested massively in large-scale projects including France’s largest health project at the Nice CHU.
News
Attracting investments: 2007 results
05/05/2008
Team Côte d’Azur attracted 178 investment projects to the region in 2007. Interview Jean Pierre Mascarelli, Chairman, Team Côte d’Azur.
Cross’Innov: Mission accomplished!
05/05/2008
Successful first edition of the Cross’Innov B2B conference targeting European and US firms seeking Côte d’Azur partnerships in order to locate in the region.
Science at Sophia
05/05/2008
Sophia Antipolis Foundation to host a new series of high-level conferences led by world-renowned specialists.
First Cross Innov’ Forum
21/04/2008
A “made in the USA”-style business forum puts the accent on technological convergence and a cross-sector approach.
Cross’Innov Conference
21/04/2008
Interview with INSERM Director Yannick Le Marchand-Brustel who will host a conference on the new “Centre Méditerranéen de Médecine Moléculaire” (C3M).
- Download the focus on investments 2007
Key Facts & Figures
Annual turnover: 2.1 billion euros
Companies: 261
Fields of activity: Biotechnologies, Biomaterials, Chemistry, Cosmetology, Biomedical Engineering, Health Image and Software, Medical Instrumentation, Pharmaceutical & Veterinary Industrie, Pharmacology, Agronomy.
Jobs: 9.180
Leaders: Arkopharma, Asepta, Bayer Cropsciences, CLL Pharma, Dow Agrosciences, Elaiapharm, Galderma, Integra Neurosciences Implants, Laboratoires Boiron, Laboratoires Genévrier, Laboratoires MXM, NicOx, Stryker, Txcell, Virbac
Success Stories: Nicox, Stryker, Virbac
Competitive Clusters : ORPHEME – Orphean Diseases and Emerging Pathologies.
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Team Côte d'Azur is a joint initiative of the Alpes-Maritimes county council |
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