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In Aquitaine, you will find all the ingredients for successfully setting up and developing your business:

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A market for eco-activities

Communities concerned with conservation

• A quality natural environment: hydrology, natural environments with a strong image
  
• The durability of tourism and its related activities: sea resorts, mountain resorts, green tourism, etc.
  
• Harmony with industrial economic activities
  

Leading and dynamic industrial sectors in the region

• Wood/paper,
• Building,
• Chemistry-Energy,
• Aeronautics and space.
  

A dynamic demography coupled with a highly attractive territory in residential and productive sectors...� 3 million inhabitants with 1 million in the Bordeaux suburbs and a migratory flow of 0.5 %.

The first climate plan so far elaborated in France with 102 million Euros budget

Natural resources to promote

One of the leading agricultural regions in France... for biomass

• First European producer of corn,
• First cultivated forest in Europe...
  

Historical basin for gas production

Solar opportunities

Clusters structured around great scientific and industrial expertise

Cluster AVENIA (www.pole-avenia.com) :

• Bio-energies (2nd generation bio-fuels, biogas)
  
• Materials for new energies
  
• Geosciences for water, CO2 or heat storage
  

CREAHd cluster: Sustainable Construction, Resources, Environment, Planning and Housing, in the Aquitaine region.
(www.creahd.com):

• Attractiveness of the sector for the workforce
  
• Environmental efficiency of construction
  
• Improvements and conservation of natural resources
  

Center for competitiveness XYLOFUTUR, Produits et Matériaux des Forets Cultivées (Products and Materials of Cultivated Forests) (www.ipmf.fr)-

• Wood and Construction (passive house, silent wall, etc.)
  
• Fibers and green chemistry
  
• Forest resources
  

A favorable environment

Around 300 companies, outside of trade and crafts, in eco-activities
As well as some twenty research laboratories

They are established in the Aquitaine region :

• Europlasma: waste processing with plasma torch, Energy,
• ABENGOA (Spain): Production of ethanol from corn
  
• AAER (Canada): manufacture of wind turbines blades
  
• EXOSUN: production of trackers for solar panels
  
• ISEO (VINCI group): measurements of air and water quality
  
• BERTIN technologies: research consultancy under contract, air treatment, renewable energies, etc.
  

Some flagship projects in Aquitaine :

• Gabardan in the Landes region. First photovoltaic plant in Europe with 76 MW on 300 ha (EDF EN)
  
• Pilot project of CO2 capture and storage at 4500 m deep on the Lacq basin -- budget of 60 million Euros (TOTAL)
  
• Project of electricity production from gasification of general industrial waste - 30 million Euros (EUROPLASMA)
  

Aquitaine, the first French region for the share of its budget devoted to R&D

Attractive conditions for setting up a business

Real estate costs on average 30% lower than in the Paris region. Cost of living 20% lower than in Paris.

Areas of specialized businesses :

• Renewable energies, materials and eco-activities:
  The Montesquieu Technopoles in Martillac, in the Bordeaux suburbs, and Helioparc in Pau, have office space available in business incubators www.technopole-bordeaux-montesquieu.com ; www.helioparc.fr

• Eco-construction :
  As from 2009, the future Ecoparc in Blanquefort (33) will host sustainable-construction companies and eco-industries.
  

• Chemistry-Energy :
  The site at Chemparc in Lacq (64), close to Pau, is rated Seveso 2 and represents 4000 employees in these sectors, www.chemparc.com

Mechanisms for the technical and financial support of companies, carried by a strong political will

A "single window" to support and fund your projects :

• Network: Aquitaine agency for innovation INNOVALIS + OSEO + ADEME + agence de l'eau (water agency) + DRIRE + regional Council
• Optimization of aid mechanisms

Calls for projects of the regional Council: photovoltaic, Aliénor (sustainable construction)

Competition for the creation of innovative companies, with awards and labels of big companies

A network of eco-friendly shopping for comunities, led by the ADEME and the regional Council, www.achatsresponsables.com/aquitaine

More than 130 companies in the Aquitaine region have already received more than 12 million Euros in the framework of the last 3 calls for projects.

Have you got a development project?

We will help you to make it come true, while maintaining confidentiality

• Identify your future partners
• Research the sites that are tailored to your needs, arrange visits
  
• Help you with the paper work, maximize grants
  

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