SYNERGIA:
Economic development is an essential challenge for the Caen la mer urban community. In order to ensure its success, the conurbation's development agency, Synergia, coordinates its action around two major strategic aims:
- By encouraging the introduction and the development of new enterprise
- By positioning the district around strategic industry sectors hence stimulating its natural attractiveness.
The agency's job is to:
- Attract and implement national and international projects,
- Accompany businesses during their creation and development,
- Promote and stimulate activities throughout the territory,
- Accelerate innovative approaches,
- Market Caen la mer's community interest activity parks.
EFFISCIENCE Technology Park:
- Technologies are constantly adapting to increasing mobility trends, resulting in the emergence of pioneer markets and new exchange and transaction methods which, although secure, must maintain maximum personal liberty.
- Facing such fundamental challenges, the Effiscience Technology Park aspires to achieve international recognition to serve an ambitious yet realistic goal: the convergence of associated technologies, whilst maintaining the essential ethics implicated in the new world of « Interactive mobile devices ».
- The Technology Park positions itself as an international expertise center on interactive mobility, in all aspects of daily life (telecommunications, home automation, transport, information, entertainment, health, administration...). It affirms its position as the technological showcase of Normandy-based competitiveness clusters.
TECHNOLOGY:
- The international influence of Caen - a city committed to high technology mobile experimentation (Near Field Communication) - and to the development of monetics (NXP Semi Conductors, Oberthur CS, France Telecom R&D)
- A dense and coherent regional network of public and private research partners (CNRS - National Centre for Scientific Research, NXP Semi Conductors, Silicon Laboratories, France Telecom R&D, LATEMS - Secure electronic transactions, monetics and security laboratory, LAMIP - ISMRA-Philips Microelectronics Laboratory) higher education institutions (ENSICAEN - National Superior School of Engineering, University)
- Government approval of Normandy-based competitiveness clusters: MOV'EO (motor industry), TES (secure electronic transactions), LSN (logistics), Polymers Technologies (plastics), Horse industry. Indeed, all of these competitiveness clusters rely on the excellence of higher education and research institutions, and the Science park aims at acting as a technological platform.
- The launch of Europe's only higher education course in the field of electronic miniaturization: M'SIP (System-in-Package
INCUBATOR FACILITIES:
PLUG n' WORK incubation Center on the Technology Campus
Over a 2,600m2 complex, in the heart of the technology park, young innovative businesses and project teams will benefit from high value added services together with support and coaching to ensure their successful development.
Business incubators are accommodation and coaching structures for young companies.
They reunite:
- adapted premises at affordable rents, through short-term lease,
- shared services (secretarial, office automation, meeting rooms...),
- consultancy and coaching for entrepreneurs
Designed around these three constituents, business incubators prove to be efficient tools for the creation of new enterprise, facilitating conditions for the start up, development and continuity of young businesses.
Shared business premises are a natural continuation of business incubators, however they only offer two of the services provided by incubators (adapted premises and a few shared business services)
They can welcome businesses straight from the incubator but also existing companies looking for a flexible rental solution before setting up on a permanent basis.
IMPORTANT EVENTS IN OUR REGION:
- The "Innovation Entrepreneurs" competition, organized by Synergia, in partnership with regional economic development players, aims at identifying new business projects and at encouraging future project initiators to create new activities.
- NormandInnov a yearly Investors / company business fair organized by Synergia
LINKS TO IMPORTANT WEBSITES IN OUR REGION:
www.campus-effiscience.com
www.normandy-tourism.org
www.calvados-strategie.com/home.php
www.synergia.fr