A world class bio cluster Capital of the Rhône-Alpes region (5.6 m inhabitants), Lyon offers a magical mix of economic performance and fine living: Business: the spirit of enterprise is an age-old tradition in the region, home to over 900 foreign companies, with a GDP among the highest in Europe. Lyon increasingly attracts new businesses and new talent, thanks to competitive prices in the business and residential real estate market. For more than 10 years, Lyon have indeed encouraged the development of an entrepreneurial dynamics with the installation of 1 incubator but also by the creation of a dedicated real estate of which the launching of single Bioparc in Europe and by the deployment of Lyon BioAdvisor, network of services dedicated to companies. More and more, it attracts undertaken and new talents in particular thanks to a professional and residential real estate at very competitive prices. Leader in the field of medicine and biology, Lyon has for centuries contributed to the world health heritage, through pioneers such as Marcel Mérieux, a brilliant student of Pasteur. Today, LYON and GRENOBLE met to build the project LYON BIOPOLE to maintain France as a world center of excellence in diagnosis and vaccine. This project, LYONBIOPOLE, is organized around complementary competences of Lyon: WORLD N° 1 OF HUMAN AND ANIMAL VACCINES WORLD N°1 OF THE BACTERIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS and Grenoble: WORLD N°1 OUT OF MICRO AND NANO TECHNOLOGIES The strongest potential in Life Sciences in continental Europe is thus concentrated around the axis Barcelona-Heidelberg, bases of a new project of economic development at the international scale called EuroBioCluster. Recently, Lyon signed a cooperation agreement with the towns of Barcelona and Turin. Setting its sights beyond Europe, the Lyon region is working in close cooperation with major international bioclusters like Pennsylvania and California. Pleasure: Lyon is a warm, welcoming city, listed as a Unesco World Heritage site. In the heart of a spectacular tourist region, Lyon is only an hour from the Alps and the world’s largest skiing domain, two hours from the French Riviera and 30 minutes from the Beaujolais. A center for creative industries, fashion and design, and a European capital of video games, Lyon is the French gastronomic capital with fabulous cooks such as Paul Bocuse. Lyon’s artistic events, the Festival of Lights, the Dance Biennial and the Vienne Jazz Festival, are all factors that make Lyon world renowned destination. An average 15 schools offer expatriate childrens an international curriculum, which enables them to adapt smoothly to their new life. For further information: Lyon BioAdvisor Grand Lyon - Direction des Affaires Economiques 20 rue du Lac - BP3103 - 69399 Lyon cedex 3 - France Phone: +33 (0)4 78 63 48 86 www.entreprendre.grandlyon.com