03/14/12 14:35-15:40 Presentation of the Aerospace Valley
summit
The worldwide aeropace and innovation cluster for aeronautics, space and embedded systems
Mr. Thilo Schonfeld, Deputy Director International Affairs, Aerospace Valley
Mr. Philippe Baylet, Executive Director, Inward Investment, Midi-Pyrenees Expansion
Aerospace Valley, created in 2005, today it is the French leading innovative competitiveness cluster dedicated to the sectors of aeronautics, space and embedded systems. Gathering the two regions Midi-Pyrenees (Toulouse) and Aquitaine (Bordeaux) in the Southwest of France, today Aerospace Valley has 570 members including 80 primes and 270 SMEs as well as the major aerospace research establishments and engineering schools.
Overall, members of Aerospace Valley represent 1/3 of the French aerospace workforce totalling to around 120.000 employments in 1300 industrial establishments including primes and OEMs such as EADS-Airbus, ATR, Dassault, Thales, Safran or EADS-Astrium and ThalesAleniaSpace. Aerospace Valley must be considered as a huge innovation think tank
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