Welcome to the business community

Extending a warm welcome to investors of all nationalities

With its multimodal transport station and road transport centre, conference and convention centres, exhibition centre, broadband internet networks, Business Development Centres and Trade Centres, etc., the Poitiers Combined District Council (Communauté d’Agglomération de Poitiers – CAP) offers optimum facilities and an unrivalled infrastructure for investors.

Skills centres and trailblazing business sectors...

1. The Poitiers Biopole: a network of experts and a cradle of innovation
   

   As a complement to the Futuroscope Technology Park, which focuses specifically on knowledge and digital technology-based activities, the Biopôle, thanks to its expertise in Life Sciences (health and medications) and the Environment (water, soils and bioengineering), has become the second-biggest skills centre in the Poitiers urban area.

   Visit the Biopôle’s website for further information

2. The “Digital Technology and ICT” business sector

   The Poitiers urban area has experienced massive growth in the fields of ICT, multimedia, open and distance learning and the remote management of customer relations. Therefore, companies operating in the Information and Communications Technologies and Multimedia sectors have played a major role in the expansion of the Futuroscope Technology Park

3. The Pôle MTA (Mobility and Advanced Transportation Competitive Cluster):

   Located at the heart of the Futuroscope Technology Park in the CAP, the Pôle MTA is an internationally-recognised centre of excellence from which a number of major development projects have originated in the fields of research, development and experimentation concerning vehicles of the future. Its areas of expertise include energy storage, either electrical for today’s vehicles or hydrogen for the fuel cell applications of the future; the drive train from the engine to the vehicles’ wheels; experimentation into vehicles and hybrid electrical transport systems and the use of biofuels and materials derived from plants.
   Visit the Pôle MTA’s website for further information

4. The Poitou-Charentes “Eco-industries” competitive cluster

   This cluster’s mission is to develop companies in the SME/SMI sector producing clean technologies and goods and services which are designed to measure, prevent and correct environmental impacts and risks (water, air and soil, wastes, noise, pollution, conservation of resources, renewable energies, etc.). The Eco-industries network therefore includes a large number of manufacturers and research and technology transfer centres and initiates innovative projects on a multitude of topics: biofuels, agri-materials, agri-products, eco-design, recycling and sustainability of materials, etc.
   Visit the Poitou-Charentes Pôle Eco-industries website
   

5. Transport and logistics

   Thanks to its central location at the heart of France’s Greater Western region, Poitiers occupies a strategic position and is the natural hub of a geographical area with 7 million inhabitants living less than 3 hours away from the city by truck.

   Situated close to the Atlantic Arc ports of La Rochelle and St Nazaire, Poitiers is ideally positioned for logistics activities.

• Midway between Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsular
• Crossed by the A10 motorway and the N10, N147 and N151 trunk roads favoured by road haulage professionals working at the national and international levels
• 12,000 heavy goods vehicles travel within the urban area every day, 60% of which use the A10