Infrastructure and equipment
Caen la Mer offers great electrical and telecommunications services and infrastructures.
A local electrical power plant (24 MW available in the region of Caen), and 3 nuclear power stations nearby (Paluel, Flamanville, Penly).
> A secure fibre optics network installed by COVAGE NETWORKS (140 km, 100 Gb/s with the capacity to go up to 400 Gb/s) is connected to 4 international transport systems, hence the potential for operators is high.
> Available fibre optic network: in 7 business districts and their buildings (425 companies in 220 buildings) and on the outskirts of over 40 other districts across the territory.
> Operators present via a public service delegation with the conurbation community of Caen la Mer: Altitude, Adiste, Céleste, Free, SFR, NormHast, Compléter, Omis Rfsc Group.
> Connected to the RENATER (The National Technology, Training and Research Network), which facilitates communication within the training and research world (on a national and international scale). This telecommunications network is built on a robust and secure architecture.
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Access and service
Caen la Mer is close to the London-Amsterdam-Dusseldorf-Strasburg-Lyon-Bordeaux arc with many access routes.
> The international Caen—Carpiquet airport provides a link between the major European capitals
> 2 hrs from Paris by train
> A13 motorway to Paris
> A134 to Rennes and Nantes
> The Caen-Ouistreham Port
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Property and real estate opportunities
Caen la Mer can offer significant property and real estate opportunities
It manages over 1000 hectares of the local business districts.
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Aid and support
Synergia, Caen la Mer’s economic development agency, supports local business by:
> welcoming new companies, making it easy for them to settle and develop in Caen, and by ensuring that all of the necessary technical conditions are in place for their project to succeed.
> offering support to new innovative business start-ups.
> helping existing companies to develop more rapidly.
> identifying the potential of emerging sectors in business, training or research, and facilitating their development.
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Education, research, Human Resources
In Caen la Mer, universities, engineering schools, research centres and companies all work towards a common goal: success.
Higher education:
- Over 23, 500 students across 3 university campuses (11 university departments, 8 colleges)
- 2 engineering schools (ENSICAEN, European leader in electronic banking, and ESTIC for construction and works),
- 2 business schools (the Ecole de Management de Normandie [Normandy Management School] and the Institut d'Administration des Entreprises [Business Administration Institute])
- 1 teacher training college
- 35 post-graduate courses
- 1055 researchers at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Ø Formative research facilities CICERON (Center for Cerebral Imagery and Research in Neurosciences), biomedical and nuclear cluster (currently being established), green construction cluster (currently being established)
Ø Competitive clusters: Mov'éo, automobile industry (international cluster), secure electronic transactions (SET cluster), which was labelled a national competitive cluster in July 2005 with the ‘Norm and Deal’ project
Ø Performance clusters: automobile industry, micro electronics, medical and pharmaceutical, business, logistics and distribution and food processing industry.
Ø 340 establishments are part of the sector of activities defined as ‘technologically innovative’
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Flagship companies
Caen la Mer boasts a number of national and international references on its territory. Furthermore, it specialises in three business sectors: telecommunications, (representing 25% of salaried jobs in innovative sectors), electronic components manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry (which, combined, represent 14% of salaried jobs in innovative sectors). Information technology represents 61% of innovative-sector establishments in Caen la Mer.
> Automobile Industry
Renault Trucks,
PSA Group
SC2N Valéo
Bosch Electronics
> Food processing
Agrial
> Pharmaceutical
§ Schering Plough (Merck Group, World no. 2)
Farmaclair
Laboratoires Gilbert
> Stationary
Hamelin Group
> Very small enterprises
Legallais Bouchard
> Electronics
NXP
Elitt (This 'Groupement des cartes bancaires' established the inter-bank card payment and cash withdrawal system in France,)
Orange Labs
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