Île-de-France Clusters

The Ile-de-France has eight clusters among 71 approved by the Comité interministériel d'aménagement et de développement du territoire (CIADT, Interdepartmental Committee on Planning and Land Development). The first four were approved by the CIACT the 14th of October 2005. Two others were validated in July 2007: the cluster Finance Innovation and ASTech. Each of these clusters is intended to create jobs and increase the attractiveness of the region in a given area at national or international level. Three of them were selected as "worldwide clusters" : Finance Innovation, Systematic Paris-Region and Medicen. Three have been identified as "clusters which will become worldwide" : Cap Digital and MOV'EO. Advancity is a "national cluster".

Systematic Paris-Region is a cluster of Ile-de-France, created in 2005, dedicated to complex systems with more than 600 innovative players.

More than 600 organizations are involved in the R & D network of the cluster: 366 SMEs-SMBs, 116 major companies, 24 ETI, 79 research centers and educational institutions, 19 local authorities and 15 investors. The cluster brings together beyond the R & D collaborative, an ecosystem of 1060 innovative SMEs.

The technological heart of the cluster brings together information technology and communication and the Design Tools and Development Systems to design, develop, operate and manage the infrastructure, systems and equipment specify to dedicated markets of the cluster. The software is the main technology with, since 2007, a proactive strategy in the field of free software in order to bring together stakeholders in their communities in Île-de-France and to promote the emergence of a thriving industry free software.

Medicen is a project submitted by the Regional Development Paris-Ile-de-France Agency with the activity of health, including infectious diseases, neuroscience and cancer. This cluster aims to increase by 50% the number of jobs in the field of life sciences and to attract at least two major pharmaceutical laboratory in research and development.

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