Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis is a technology and science park near Antibes on the Côte d'Azur . It is located in the center of the Sophia Antipolis community . The park was founded in 1968 with no connection to an industrial tradition or proximity to a regional university. Founded in 1970 by the French Senator Pierre Laffitte, around 36,300 people are currently employed in around 2,230 companies on the 2,300-hectare site.
etymology
The first part of the name is derived from the Greek word Sophia ( Σοφία ), which can be translated as “wisdom” or “knowledge”. The second half is derived from the ancient name for Antibes at the time of settlement by Greek traders, Antipolis ( Αντίπολις ), which literally means “opposite city” and refers to the location opposite Nice.
Major companies
In France, people like to see the French version of Silicon Valley in Sophia Antipolis today , as a large number of high-tech companies have settled in the region , especially in the fields of telecommunications , information technology , medicine and biotechnology . These include:
- Accenture
- Air France
- Amadeus
- Cadence Design Systems
- Fortinet
- France Telecom
- Gemalto
- Hewlett-Packard
- Hitachi
- Honeywell International
- Infineon
- Intel
- NXP Semiconductors
- orange
- SAP
Educational and research institutions
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
- European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), the European headquarters of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris (individual research institutions)
- Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
- Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA)
- Polytechnic of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis .
- Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)
- SKEMA Business School
- Eurécom Institute
- European Society of Cardiology
Web links
- www.sophia-antipolis.org (English / French)
Coordinates: 43 ° 37 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E