LYON, INTERNATIONAL CITY

ATTRACTIVE TO WORLD LEADERS

• 1st host region for international companies in France: 900 companies with foreign capital
  Internationally known institutions : Interpol, Euronews, the International Agency for Research against Cancer, WHO, one of only two P4 laboratories in Europe

TRADITION OF INNOVATION

• 1,500 decision-making centres including Sanofi Aventis, bioMérieux, Groupe Seb, Renault Trucks, EA (world headquarters), Bayer CropScience, JTEKT, Scotts International (European headquarters)
• 5 recognised competitiveness clusters: biotechnology, clean technologies, digital entertainment, technical textiles and transport systems
• A comprehensive tertiary centre: from banking/finance to HR consulting, insurance, audit, corporate real estate advisory
  Influential Part-Dieu - France’s second business district after La Défense
• A dense, competitive outsourcing network : mechanics, textiles, equipment manufacturers... more than 6,500 businesses,166,000 employees and 20% of national production capacity in the Rhône-Alpes region

WE ENCOURAGE TALENT

• 2nd teaching and research centre in France, the Lyon region offers a pool of students, researchers and highly qualified employees. On its own it admits nearly 1 French student out of 10, thanks to its reputation for job training, which is known both nationally and internationally.  Each year, nearly 15,000 foreign students come to study in Lyon