A high-tech powerhouse focusing on tomorrow's solutions

SYMANTEC, the creator of Norton AntiVirus, is setting up its new European R&D coordination center in Sophia Antipolis.

"In the wake of an initial participation in a European project in the past, Symantec was convinced of the value of research programs in Europe and decided to increase its presence on the continent."

Marc Dacier, Director, Symantec Research embedded lab, Sophia Antipolis
www.symantec.com

A European center of excellence

The Côte d'Azur is home to over 1,200 IT companies, including global leaders in microelectronics, telecommunications , software development as well as content production and broadcasting solutions


Sophia Antipolis, Europe's first technology cluster, owes its success to an extraordinary community of 20,000 engineers and researchers specialized in IT. This guarantees a positioning at the forefront of IT convergence, further bolstered by the presence of major research labs and international organizations such as ETSI, ERCIM and W3C.

Multinationals, SMEs and start-ups take here full advantage of effective fiscal and financial measures to boost innovation :

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A dynamic ICT cluster

- Secured Communicating Solutions - SCS Cluster

- Every year, the Côte d'Azur area hosts several professional events related to information technologies: IMAGINA,MIDEM, MIPTV featuring MILIA, MIPCOM, SAME, SAP CONFERENCES, WMWORLD EUROPE, WIMA and more...

News

02/05/2012

Nice: Tequilarapido announces 12 new contracts

27/04/2012

Since the start of the year, the agency has won seven new contracts and renewed five other key accounts

Sophia Antipolis: MS Innovations, the mobile marketing specialist raises €1M

24/04/2012

With this funding from investors in the Middle East, the company intends to open offices in the Lebanon and Dubai.

Thales Alenia Space: United Arab Emirates' second communications satellite ready to launch

20/04/2012

Y1B, the 2nd satellite of the UAE’ space communications programme is ready to be launched on a Proton launcher from Baikonur in Kazakhstan

Sophia Antipolis: Davidson Consulting ranked 4th "Great Place to Work 2012 France"

16/04/2012

Davidson Consulting plans to recruit around twenty engineers in Sophia Antipolis in 2012, particularly in the field of embedded systems

They chose the Côte d'Azur

"Sophia-Antipolis is a very attractive region for any semiconductor company, for several reasons. The first one is that in the technology park of Sophia-Antipolis there is a solid tradition of analog and digital design, which is due to the presence of other big companies working in the same or similar markets, like Texas Instruments, Intel, STM and others. The second reason is linked to presence in the technology park of the Polytech'Nice-Sophia and other important schools.

That will guarantee our future growth since the region will always offer both experienced design engineers and you talents to hire."

Interview with Paolo Cusinato, Design Director of MAXIM Sophia-Antipolis design center

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Christophe PEREZ

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Christophe PEREZ is Business Unit Manager in the Information Technologies Business Unit. He previously held the position of Inward Investment Manager since 2005. 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.

Key facts & figures

 

Annual turnover: 3.95 billion euros

Nearly 50% of cluster companies have R&D operations

Companies: 1.372

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

Jobs: 20.190

 

 

 

 

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, ...

Who’s Who on the Côte d'Azur : Information Technology

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