Competitiveness clusters
Competitiveness clusters deploy structured strategies to foster synergies within business communities. This includes support for innovative businesses and research teams, and
assistance to help integrate of foreign businesses in the Paris ecosystem.
There are 7 competitiveness clusters in the Greater Paris region:
Advancity
Advancity is involved in four main sectors, all inter-related and together reflecting growth in the urban network. Together they cover the entire Agenda 21 program, addressing city dwellers’ desire to live in a sustainable urban environment.
- Resources and the environment: eco-efficient components; renewable energies; energy storage and carbon capture; water, air and waste processing (collection and recycling); remediation of polluted sites and soils, noise and related nuisances, key technologies, etc.
- Housing and construction: eco-efficient buildings; passive or energy-positive construction; civil engineering; urban utility systems and networks; instrumentation and environmental monitoring, etc.
- Mobility and transport: public transport; urban logistics; eco-efficient vehicles; soft mobility; dynamic car-sharing; access to public transport for the disabled; multi-modal travel information for passengers, etc.
- Urban issues including planning, development and governance; urban risks; design and maintenance of utility systems and services; urban health; creative and digital city programs, etc.
Astech
Aerospace cluster ASTech Paris Region brings together an exceptional pool of expertise that now represents over 100,000 jobs (excluding aerospace maintenance). A total of 28,000 researchers together with world-renowned universities and institutions of higher education, and 43% of France’s entire R&D budget in aerospace make the Paris region no. 1 in France in the field.
ASTech members include a core group of SMEs as well as larger players (EADS Astrium, Dassault Aviation, Safran, SNPE, etc.) and aerospace research institutions such as Onera, CNRS, CNES, etc.
Cap Digital
Cap Digital focuses on digital content and services, bringing together businesses, research centers and training bodies specializing in knowledge engineering; culture, press and media; image, sound and interactivity; video games; e-learning and e-training; mobile lifestyle and services; digital design; robotics and communicating objects; as well as collaborative technology and intelligence.
Finance Innovation
A cluster for stakeholders in the financial sector — banks, insurance companies, asset managers, service suppliers to financial institutions — and government authorities, designed to promote promising new projects, products and services.
Finance Innovation brings together expertise in research and innovation, and through cross-fertilization promotes synergies between businesses, research centers and universities and other institutes of higher education. The cluster is at once a catalyst for project development and a facilitator for identifying main challenges in technology and markets through exchanges between financial experts and academics.
Medicen
Medicen is a cluster for all major stakeholders in life sciences and health in the Paris region. Based in the heart of Europe’s no. 1 economic region, it represents the continent’s highest concentration of health experts.
To make the most of the wealth of know-how and skills available in Greater Paris, Medicen is structured by theme, each bringing together critical mass in academia and industrial research.
Mov'eo
Spanning three regions including Greater Paris, Mov’eo is dedicated to advanced transport and mobility options that are safe for people and the environment.
The cluster was founded in 2006 to detect, promote and assist collaborative R&D projects that:
- match growing demand for mobility with a reduction in the environmental impact of public transport
- make businesses and regions more competitive, and promote their economic development.
System@TIC
The digital revolution is in full swing, and System@tic is at the heart of it. This world-class cluster develops key tools and technologies in the field of software-dominant systems. It focuses on three areas, each with a major impact on key social issues: transports, telecommunications and security. Positioned at the crossroads of applications and technology, the group has spawned five working groups, each, in turn, addressing a specific theme. The cluster’s 400 members define their strategic vision and develop collaborative R&D projects within these groups.
