Setting up your business in the Department Hautes-Alpes

Develop your activity in the Department Hautes-Alpes and you will be able to benefit from a privileged dynamic environment.

The development agency of the department helps you with your project in the Southern Alps, at the crossroad of three dynamic regions, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Rhône-Alpes and northern Italy:

- Project study: analysis of the economic feasibility and business plan

- Development of your project: integration into the regional business network

- Project launch: search for financing, offices or industrial plots

Several sectors of excellence:

• Aerospace industry: 4 aerodromes in the Department Hautes-Alpes
• Renewable energies: an exceptional environment for photovoltaic solar energy (300 sunny day a year)
• Agri-food industry: centre of excellence "Le Goût de notre terre" (“The taste of our land”) for bio products
• ICT: microelectronics within the Technology centre “Micropolis” in Gap

Several competitive clusters have found in this region favourable conditions for their development and offer companies their services: Cluster Montagne, Pôle Pégase, Pôle Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées, Pôle Arôme Senteurs Saveurs, TERRALIA, CAPENERGIE.