ESTER LIMOGES TECHNOPOLE

Access

Limoges benefits from its strategic geographical location in the heart of France and at the crossroads of major European routes:

• The A20 highway: Barcelona-London axis, toll free over 300 Km
• The A89 highway: Bordeaux-Lyon axis,
• The Central Europe Atlantic Route: Nantes-Geneva axis.
• Limoges Bellegarde International Airport (300,000 passengers /year)
• The SNCF Paris-Toulouse-Barcelona railway.

Finally, Limoges and its suburbs are part of the Limousin DORSAL project, which provides public broadband access for everyone (businesses, individuals, local authorities), at the best prices.

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Available real estate

 Limoges conurbation has developed three initiatives:

• Set-up assistance for businesses provided by the ESTER Technopole cluster and its operational network, as well as business creation and development organizations (technological incubators, enterprise zones etc.),
• 1300 hectares of real estate available and a further 750 hectares in the medium term.
• And all of the industrial areas are planned and constructed strictly in line with environmental standards.

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Financial aid

• grants or reduced rent which may be increased by 10% in areas with a regional grant program
• Remission of professional taxes in the event of creation or resumption of a company in difficulty, concerning projects led by competitive clusters,
•  a financial network for business, with OSEO, Limousin Participations (venture capital company), and the Limousin Business Angels. 

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Training, research, human resources

The University of Limoges has built its reputation on a wide range of disciplines and innovation.

- A few figures:

Almost 15,000 students

Universities and training colleges offering 480 diplomas (IUT, IAE, IPAG, engineering schools including: ENSCI (the national college of industrial engineering) and SUP-REHA - the national college for natural habitat and living environment remediation studies.

Over 800 researchers and research professors and 668 PhD Students (XLIM, IPAM...)

numerous partnerships and training and employment organizations to support businesses with their recruitment.

In Limousin two competitive clusters have been approved:

• The European ceramics cluster: ceramics, materials and surface treatments.
• Elopsys: high technologies cluster

The region and the conurbation area work in cooperation with other regions for 4 other clusters: Cancer bio health, Viaméca, meat and meat products, and sciences and electric energy systems

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Flagship companies

 Small companies make up the majority in the area and they generate the largest number of jobs in the luxury and quality goods sectors:

• Porcelain industry: Bernardaud, Haviland...,
• Electrical engineering: Legrand,
• Polycrystalline silicum manufacture: Emix
• Automobile and heavyweight trucks: Valéo, Renault Trucks...

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Find out more

Limoges Metropolitan area and sustainable development:

The Conurbation's Agenda 21:

This is based upon three main lines of action: energy management and the fight against global warming, knowledge, preservation and development of the heritage, eco-responsibility and solidarity in everyday life.

The territorial climate plan:

A tool by which to implement the first main line of Agenda 21, a Territorial Climate Plan was launched in 2010. It will enable a balance sheet of greenhouse gas emissions to be drawn up and a joint action plan to be launched in cooperation with all of the local actors with a view to reducing these levels.

For more information

• Download the presentation brochure/ specific file to download?
• Visit these websites: www.agglo-limoges.fr, www.ester-technopole.org

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Somme - Picardie Maritime

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