competitiveness centres

In response to changes in the international, and consequently, national economy, France has decided to implement a large-scale industrial policy:  the promotion of key industrial competitiveness factors grouped in competitiveness centres. The innovative capacity of R&D is in the forefront and is one of the main challenges of the competitiveness centre policy.
It was therefore natural that France Telecom, with over 3,800 researchers in eight centres throughout France, should become heavily involved in 7 competitiveness centre projects which were all labelled and either worldwide, with a worldwide purpose or on a national or regional scale:

worldwide
Minalogic, Miniaturised Intelligent Solutions, Rhône Alpes;
Secure Communications Solutions, PACA;
System@tic, Software and Complex Systems in Ile-de-France;

with a worldwide purpose
Images and Networks, Brittany;
IMVN, Image, Multimedia and Digital Life, Ile-de-France;

with a national and regional purpose
Area Risk and Vulnerability Management, PACA;
Secure Electronic Transactions, Normandy.

France Telecom is a partner in seven of the seventeen competitiveness centres in the field of ICT, alongside the sector's major players, research and training centres and innovative SMEs.

Website dedicated to the promotion and development of Competitiveness Centres: http://www.competitivite.gouv.fr/