Why set up your company in Department Vaucluse?
Setting up your company in Department Vaucluse
Located in the French region Région Sud, the Department Vaucluse benefits from a strategic position in southern France.
By setting up in Vaucluse, you will easily reach the cities of Lyon, Grenoble or Marseille (motorway A7), Nice or Italy (motorway A8), Nîmes, Montpellier, Perpignan and Spain (motorway A9). The Department Vaucluse gives you access to Europe and its 115 million consumers, a market with more than 9 million inhabitants less than 2 hours away.
There are many reasons why you should set up in the French city of Avignon:
- A strategic position in southern Europe, along the North-South axis between Spain and Italy
- An outstanding transport network (railway, motorways, air connections)
- Only 2 hours from London, Brussels and Madrid
- “French Tech” label for its new technology companies
A dominant role in the ICT sector:
- 25 world’s leading companies
- 16 research and training centres
- 1,200 public sector researchers
- 1,500 engineers graduating annually
- 60,000 jobs in the ICT sector
Several development lines:
- Museology
- E-Tourism applications
- Radio Frequency Identification
- Open-source software
Finding the right location for your company in Department Vaucluse
Business parks and commercial real estate in southern France
Major research and training centres:
- Research and training centre for computer science (CERI)
- The computer lab of Avignon with several foreign researchers
- The geomatics lab of Avignon
- The competitive cluster Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées (SCS)
- Possibility to benefit from the European Research tax credit (CIR)
Digital companies in Vaucluse
- New technology companies are welcome in Avignon (co-working spaces, offices, commercial properties). Highly developed training and research centres for ICT companies: image, 3D, man-machine dialogue, videogames.
- The Department Vaucluse is certified French Tech Culture for its impact on the digital technologies market.
International companies in Department Vaucluse
- CBA: Leading French company of management software for domiciliary nurses
- Rolls Royce Nuclear Services: Engineering solutions for the nuclear industry
- Vocaza: Management of online surveys
- EGIDE: Encapsulation components
- Jerlaure: Construction of data centres
- Castle Prod: Video games developer
- Car Systems: Fleet management solutions
