[Automatic translation follows] The Pays de la Loire region includes 5 departments: Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe and Vendée. It has 3.7 million inhabitants spread across 1,357 municipalities. It is a territory balanced between rural and urban areas, organized around 7 large urban areas (Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Angers, Cholet, Le Mans, Laval and La-Roche-sur-Yon) and 1,108 municipalities with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. Bordered by 450 km of coastline and crisscrossed by the Loire, the region has the leading port on the Atlantic coast. Its economic dynamism is a real strength that allows it to have the lowest unemployment rate in France (8.5%). …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] Maritime Innovation Facilitator in Brittany and Pays de La Loire Created in 2005 to provide new responses to increasingly pressing global competition, the primary purpose of competitiveness clusters is to propose a new industrial policy. Competitiveness clusters aim to boost companies' capacity for innovation and to develop growth and employment in promising markets. An essential lever Competitiveness clusters thus promote the development of collaborative research and development projects, they support the growth of their member companies, in particular by marketing new products, services or processes resulting from research work. Thanks to the clusters, the companies involved can …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] By your side to innovate! Technopole of the economic and university basin of Nantes Atlantique, equipped with a European Center of Enterprises and Innovation, carrier of the regional Incubator of Pays de la Loire, pilot and/or partner of several competitiveness clusters. Atlanpole is at the service of: • Innovative project leaders (industrialists, researchers, academics, students, private individuals, etc.) • Innovative companies and laboratories • Actors in economic, scientific and technological development Atlanpole's scope of action is broad and concerns many sectors of activity: • Biotechnologies / Health • ICT / Electronics / IT • Environment / New …