Research and Partnerships: Innovation Clusters

• 71 innovation clusters throughout France: centers of dialogue and partnership between private businesses, public-sector research laboratories, universities and academic institutes.
• Direct access to networks of excellence across all business sectors.
• Partnership opportunities: By late 2009, over one-third of cluster members were involved in R&D projects: over 700 projects had been concluded while another 2,300 were underway.
• Cluster members employed 760,000 people, including 268,000 highly skilled employees, as of December 31, 2008.
• Financial and tax support for R&D activities: between 2006 and 2008, France’s 71 innovation clusters received €2 billion in State funding to support their R&D projects and a further €2.5 billion between 2009 and 2011.

Click on a cluster on the map below to open a detailed factsheet.