• Software engineering: a European high-tech powerhouse that reflects the stamina of today’s IT industry
    World leaders backed by a thriving community of smaller innovative companies, are pushing the limits in this fast changing environment, developing key technologies for wireless links, VoiP solutions, transmission protocols...
  • Software engineering, long-established on the Côte d’Azur...
    Its vitality is due to the diversity of IT applications developed in the region: telecommunications, microelectronics, but also the space industry, healthcare, biotechnologies and image processing...

Software engineering

The Côte d’Azur, a European high-tech powerhouse, reflects the stamina of today’s IT industry.
World leaders backed by a thriving community of smaller innovative companies, are pushing the limits in this fast changing environment, developing key technologies for wireless links, VoiP solutions, transmission protocols, systems on chip (SoC), ground networks, as well as software applications for on line security and content processing & delivery.


Software engineering, also long-established on the Côte d’Azur, owes its vitality to the diversity of IT applications developed in the region: telecommunications, microelectronics, but also the space industry, healthcare, biotechnologies and image processing.

Engineers and researchers from all over the world also focus on the most up-to-date innovative solutions in application areas such as management, finance, customer relationships, security, travel, automatic devices and industrial manufacturing systems . It represents a total of 3,677 jobs in software industry, 2,273 jobs in R&D with 247 Million € of private investment for R&D programs.

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    Inward Investments Manager

    • Your Contact: Christophe PEREZ
    • Phone : + 33 (0)4 92 17 51 63
    • (E-mail)

    • Bio

      Christophe PEREZ is inward investments Manager in the Information Technologies Business Unit since 2005. He is in charge of Software Development, eContent, Digital Entertainment and IT services fields. Before joining Team Côte d'Azur, Christophe held business development position for the 1st European Science Park, Sophia Antipolis. Previously, he was in charge of promoting and commercializing private golf courses and luxury housing real estate programs for Euro France Development Group. His career started with Wintersitck Snowboards, a leading US company in mountain sports industry, as a marketing & communication manager for Europe. Christophe has been graduated in marketing (1998) and got a master degree (2002) in knowledge Management at the Nice Sophia Antipolis University.
  • The IT cluster brochure
    Doing Internet Business brochure
    Young innovative companies status
    The research tax credit
    Grant scheme for R&D and Innovation

    • Key facts & figures

    Annual turnover: 4.2 billion euros

    Nearly 50% of cluster companies have R&D operations

    Companies: 1.260

    Fields of activity : Telecoms & Networks, Space Industry & Aeronautics, Software Engineering, Design Firms, Microelectronics, Multimedia & Online Services, Image Processing (2D/3D).

    Jobs: 20.390

    Leaders : Altran Automotive, Amadeus, ASK, Autodesk, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, Dassault Systemes, Fortinet, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Icera, Infineon Technologies, Mentor Graphics, MstarSemi, Oracle, Orange Labs, SAP Labs, ST-Ericsson, Sunplus mMobile, Symantec, Texas Instruments, UDCast, Thales Alenia Space, Thales Underwater Systems, Wall Street Systems,…,…

    Success Stories : 3Roam, Centile, CSR Cambridge Silicon Radio, Insight SIP, Lumilog, OpenPlug, PacketVideo, Prim’Vision, Smartcom, Stonetrip, Verimatrix, VoIP Telecom, …

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Conseil général

Team Côte d'Azur is a joint initiative of the Alpes-Maritimes county council
and the French Riviera Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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