Unternehmen
Cap Digital
Street
74, rue du Faubourg du Temple
ZIP Code
75012
City
Paris
Country
France
Company Profile:
CAP DIGITAL PARIS REGION
The French Business Cluster for Digital Content and Services
Creation, Knowledge and Communication
Cap Digital is the French Business Cluster For Digital Content. Established as a non-profit organization, its 400 members and 150 research laboratories represent the digital industry’s most active players in Digital Content: Image Sound and Interactivity, Video Games, Knowledge Engineering, Digital Heritage, e-Education, Collaborative Technology & Intelligence (ICT), Digital Lifestyle & Services, Robotics, and Design.
Cap Digital provides members key information, networks, and resources: ongoing competitive intelligence, training, partnerships, funding solutions, project reviews, and vital group energy.
This cluster, which currently has 500 members (80% of them innovative SME, 150 public laboratories), has defined four priorities:
• Research & Development: Cap Digital has certified 150 innovative projects which are already funded by more than €361 millions.
• Company development: Cap Digital provides services to its members, as training or funding solutions.
• Management and networking: By providing businesses in the cluster with a structure, support and a real sense of community, Cap Digital encourages the sharing of know-how and cross-fertilisation between the cluster\'s nine activity sectors.
• International deployment: Cap Digital acts as an interface between companies based in the Paris Region and the major European and global economic centres, with a goal of setting up international projects or the organisation of international missions to support SME in their export activities.
PARIS REGION’S KEY FIGURES
• 3.5%: the 2007 growth figure for the ICT industries in Europe, 4% in the Paris Region
• 18,000: the number of ICT companies in the Paris Region
• 20,200: the number of students graduating in ICT subjects in the Paris Region every year
• 70: the number of universities and university-level institutions offering advanced IT and telecoms courses
• 136,000 researchers and research technicians in the Paris Region
• 423,000: the number of ICT jobs in the Paris Region
• 3,900: the number of companies created in the Paris Region in 2006: 7% up on the previous year
• Over € 3 billion: the amount invested in installing a fiber optic network structure rarely seen elsewhere in Europe. The Paris Region will be the first area of Europe with very high-speed Internet access.
Keywords:
- Image, sound & interactivity
- Knowledge Engineering
- Video games
- Digital Heritage
- e-Education, e-training
- Collaborative Technologies
- Digital lifestyle & services
- Robotics and intelligent objects
- Digital Design
