System@TIC Paris-Région

At the heart of the digital revolution, the French SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION competitiveness cluster works in the field of software-dominant systems focusing on markets with a strong social dimension : Automotive & Transport, Security & Defence and Telecoms.
From 2009, SYSTEM@TIC deploys his technologies towards new markets, including "Green City " which is at the heart of the 21th century challenges and whose the development depends increasingly on the know-how of SYSTEM@TIC members.
The goal of the cluster, focusing on five Working Groups sharing strategic visions, is to develop the regional economy and boost the competitiveness by leveraging innovation, training and partnership opportunities. SYSTEM@TIC aims at making the Paris Region one of the most competitive area at international level in the fields of ICTs, and more specificly in the domain of Software-Intensive Systems (SISs).
To date, the SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION Cluster has developed 186 R&D projects representing a total cost of €900M, including €360M of financial support from the French Government, its economic development agencies (the National Research Agency and the OSEO) and from the Paris-Region local governments.

Advancity

The areas of operation of the Advancity cluster extend to four fields of competence resulting from the growth of  tightly interconnected urban networks, which cover the entire 21 agenda ?? and address citizens' desires to live in a "sustainable city".
• Resources and the environment: eco-efficient components, renewable energies, energy storage and carbon capture, water, air and waste treatment, soil remediation, noise and noise pollution, vector technologies, etc.
• Housing and construction: eco-efficient buildings, passive- or positive- energy housing, civil engineering, urban systems and networks, structure survey and monitoring, geotechnical engineering, etc.
• Mobility and Transportation: Public transportation, urban logistics, eco-friendly vehicles, "soft" mobility, dynamic carpooling, accessible transportation for disabled, handicapped or physically challenged persons, multimodal travel information, etc.
• The City: Urbanism and territorial governance, urban risks, design and maintenance of technical systems and services, urban health care, creative and digital cities, etc.
The interweaving of these areas afford the cluster a major role in the two essential objectives of sustainable development: prevention of the greenhouse effect and conservation of energy.
The cluster is particularly focused on the sociological aspects of R&D projects and their role in improving the daily life of city dwellers

ASTech

ASTech Paris Région is a business cluster focused on aeronautics, an exceptional pool of skills which currently involves more than 100,000 jobs (excluding aeronautics maintenance), 28,000 researchers, globally recognized training organizations and 43% of France's aeronautics R&D budget, making Île de France the leading region in France for R&D in the field of aeronautics.
In addition to its already numerous SME members, the ASTech Paris Région cluster also includes some of France's leading industrialists (EADS Astrium, Dassault Aviation, SAFRAN, SNPE, to name a few) and research institutions (ONERA, CNRS, CNES, etc.) in the aeronautics sector.

ASTech Paris Région encompasses three of the leading global fields in the aeronautics and space sectors
• Business aviation:
Dassault Aviation, world leader in top-of-the-range segments
• Space transport:
EADS Astrium-ST, European leader in launch vehicles, CNES, Arianespace, among others
• Engines & equipment:
SAFRAN, world leader in propulsion.

ASTech Paris Région specializes in seven different areas to stimulate the economy and job creation in the greater Paris region:
• Five technical fields:
– Propulsion & Equipment
– Onboard energy
– Materials and processes
– Vehicle architecture
– Aeronautics maintenance
• Two interlinked areas:
– Employment and professional training
– Technical trials and measuremen

Cap Digital

The business cluster Contenus et Services Numériques Cap Digital encompasses corporations, laboratories and training organizations in the following areas: Knowledge Engineering, Digital Asset Management, Image, Sound and Interactivity, Video Games, Digital Education, Services and Uses, Digital design, Robotics and Communication Objects and Collaborative Technologies and Intelligence.

Finance Innovation

Finance Innovation, a global business cluster, is a group initiative set up by financial market operators – banks, insurance companies, management companies, service providers for financial institutions – and players in the public sector. Their common goal is to support the development of new high-potential projects, products and services in the financial sector.

Finance Innovation concentrates and stimulates the research and innovation potential of the financial market by promoting synergies among companies, laboratories and higher learning institutions. The cluster fulfills a dual role as a catalyst for project development and, at the same time, facilitator for financial players and associated academic institutions aiming to harness major technological advancements and market opportunities.

The cluster's actions are based on two strategic orientations:

• Supporting companies that develop industrial and research projects, particularly those operating in priority areas:
• New financial products and services (banking, insurance, asset management, real estate operations and related services)
• Financial tools available to SMEs
• Information systems and financial infrastructures
• Risk management and security
• Sustainable finance (Socially Responsible Investment, Solidarity Finance, Environmental Finance).
• Partnering research projects with finance companies to obtain public funding (FUI, Oséo, ANR).
• Facilitating access to capital markets for SMEs.
• Developing training programs/skills management.

Medicen Paris Région

Medicen Paris Region is composed of all the major players in life sciences  and health care in the Paris-Region metropolis. Set up in the heart of the leading economic region in Europe, it represents the greatest European concentration in the healthcare sector.
Given the rich potential of the greater Paris region in the fields of healthcare and life sciences and techniques, the cluster has been structured around fields which have reached sufficient critical mass in academic and industrial research in this region:

Three therapeutic domains:
- Neurosciences
- Oncology
- Infectious diseases

Three technological domains:
- Molecular and cellular medicine
- Biomedical imaging
- Sciences and techniques of drug design

Mov'eo

MOV’EO is a business cluster that covers three regions, including the greater Paris area (Île de France), whose operations can be summed up in a unifying credo: "Advanced means of mobility and transportation safe for man and the environment".

Since its foundation in 2006, MOV’EO has endeavored to define, encourage and partner collaborative R&D projects aiming to:

- reconcile the increasing demand for mobility and reducing the impact of transportation on the environment.
- contribute to the competitiveness and economic development of companies and territories.

To accomplish this, MOV’EO and the players in the cluster (companies, research laboratories) tackle the major challenges of the automotive and public transportation industries:

- reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions (aiming to develop "carbon-free" vehicles, etc.).
- optimizing consumption of raw materials, enabling recycling of vehicles at the end of their life cycle, and generally minimizing the environmental impact of human mobility.
- lowering the death toll and injuries on highways and in the streets.
- generating new mobility solutions and complementary and consistent systems of individual and group transportation, including for senior citizens and the physically challenged.

MOV’EO now has more than 200 members. Since its inception, the cluster has labeled 168 R&D projects that it has partnered, for an overall investment of more than €500 million in R&D.