Shaping tomorrow?s mobile solutions

Côte d'Azur Telecom Cluster

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 and mobile technologies: wireless links, VoiP solutions, transmission protocols, systems on chip (SoC) and semiconductors, ground networks, MtoM solutions, Communicating Objects and NFC solutions as well as software applications for on line security and content processing & delivery.

The Côte d'Azur Telecom cluster represents a total of 8,600 jobs, half of them in R&D activities with 42 Million € of private investment for R&D programs.

Multinationals and start-ups can take full advantage of the various fiscal and financial programs offered to boost and support innovation:


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  • Area of excellence
     Information Technology

    TEAM EXPERT
    Business Unit Manager

    Ségolène PIN-MONSAINGEON

    ségolène.pin-monsaingeon

    04 92 17 51 89

    Bio

    Ségolène PIN MONSAINGEON is the Business Unit Manager for the Information Technologies business sectors. The IT Business Unit addresses all technology-oriented companies in the fields of micro-electronics, telecommunications, software and multimedia.
    Previously, Ségolène was in charge of marketing intelligence and responsible for the Riviera Resource Center.
    Before joining Team Côte d'Azur, Segolene worked for several years as EMEA Marketing and Communication Manager for Alcatel Amtech, an American-European joint venture providing global solutions based on RFID technologies in the transportation and access control industries.
    She holds a joint Master Degree in Economics and Foreign Languages from the Grenoble University (France), as well as a Translator Master Degree from the University of Alberta (Canada).
  • Sophia Antipolis: N°1 Converging Mobile Cluster
    The IT cluster brochure
    Doing Internet Business brochure
    The research tax credit
    Young innovative companies status
    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 Praxis, Amadeus, ARM, ASK, Autodesk, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, DailyMotion, Dassault Systemes, Fortinet, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Icera, Infineon Technologies, Lagardere Active, Mentor Graphics, 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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