Sophia Antipolis

Sophia Antipolis is a technology and science park in Antibes on the Côte d' Azur. It is located in the center of the community interconnection of Sophia Antipolis. The park was established in 1968 with no connection to an industrial tradition, or proximity to a regional university. Launched by the French Senator Pierre Laffitte in 1970, currently has over 30,000 employees on the 2300 -acre site in approximately 1,300 companies.

Etymology

The first part of the name derives 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 ), from which literally means "Against City " means and refers to the location opposite Nice.

Major companies

In France we see today in Sophia- Antipolis like the French version of Silicon Valley, as have settled a number of high-tech companies in the region, especially from the areas of telecommunications, information technology, medicine and biotechnology. These include, inter alia:

• 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 )
• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS )
• Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique ( INRIA )
• Polytechnic University of Nice Sophia -Antipolis.
• Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers ( CNAM )
• Skema Business School
• Institute Eurécom
• European Society of Cardiology