The document provides information on why to invest in Toulouse, France. It highlights that Toulouse has a fast growing economy, is a center for aerospace and space industries, and has a large pool of students and research centers. It also notes that Toulouse offers competitive costs, a high quality of life, and free assistance for companies setting up in the area.

2.  Jean Tirole, 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics
 Space : ¼ of the European work force.
 Toulouse involved in big discoveries: Philae, Curiosity,
Galileo…
 Largest aircraft, most sold aircraft, most economical aircraft
 A medieval city, intact since 1463
 Goncourt price in 2014, Lydie Salvayre from Toulouse
 European city of Science in 2018
A FEW RECORDS FOR TOULOUSE
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WHY INVEST IN TOULOUSE?
1) A fast growing and vigorous economy
2) An easy access to all European cities
3) Close markets and new technologies
4) A large choice of partners & contractors
5) Lots of students in the best schools
6) World class research centers
7) Unique campus & business areas
8) Competitive costs for setting up your business
9) A unique quality of life to attract talents
10) A free assistance in each step of your set-up
IN TOULOUSE YOU WILL FIND

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TOULOUSE
1) A FAST GROWING AND VIGOROUS ECONOMY
 Strongest economic growth : +2,9% of GDP over the last 10 years
 Strongest demographic growth: 20,000+ inhabitants pa
 Highest creation of jobs in the private sector: 4000+
(CAGR in the past 5 years)
 Highest job creation rate: +1.6% (continuous growth in the past 10 years)
 Most attractive city where to invest in France (magazine Explor'Immo
- 2015)
 Working and living preferred by executives (APEC - 2014)
 Highest rate of strategic metropolis executives
(INSEE - 2014)
 Boosting economy (Challenge – 2015) TOULOUSE URBAN AREA 1,200,000
INHABITANTS
1ST FRENCH METROPOLIS FOR

5. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Only 7km outside the city center, Toulouse-Blagnac is one of the
closest French airports to their respective cities
7.6 million passengers
73 international flights
86 destinations
100 daily departures
40 direct flights to Paris per day (80 W/R)
TOULOUSE IS ALSO
1 hour 30 minutes drive away from ski resorts or the Mediterranean
sea
3 hours from Barcelona by train
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2) EASY ACCESS TO ALL EUROPEAN CITIES
By plane:

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
85,000 jobs in 600
companies
25% of the French
aeronautics and
space research
130 aeronautics
degrees
600 planes per year
delivered from
Toulouse
Design Final assembly Flight test
Two main areas devoted to
aeronautics:
 Aéroconstellation: the largest
aerospace manufacturing site in
Europe, 260ha (assembly line for
the A380)
 Montaudran: aerospace research
campus 56ha
WORLD CAPITAL OF AERONAUTICS
KEY MANUFACTURING STEPS
Airbus Group global
headquarters
22,000 employees in
Toulouse

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
25% of European
workforce
12,000 jobs
in 400 companies
French National Space
Agency
Design and
manufacturing of
satellites: 10,000 m²
of clean rooms
Exploration of Mars,
International Space
Station, Rosetta
mission…
Capital of the European
 satellite imagery (SPOT IMAGE),
 meteorology (METEO France) et
 oceanography (MERCATOR
OCEAN)
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF SPACE

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
FRENCH TECH CITY
38,000 jobs in the IT field
15 public and private business accelerators
3,000 companies in the ICT sector
100,000 sqm² for digital start-ups
Internet of things
Big Data
Fin Tech
Big groups
Internet
Incubators

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
 Possibility for digital start-ups to conduct field tests of their prototypes and concepts in Toulouse
 Examples of current field experimentations: self-driving shuttles, indoor localization at Toulouse-Blagnac airport
 Principal partners of the field experimentations:
CITY OF FIELD EXPERIMENTATIONS

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
The cluster “Robotics place” uses the former military airport Francazal for experiments
favoring all autonomous systems
Automobile network in Midi-Pyrénées, major partner for driverless shuttles
World leader for sensor manufacturing. Radars, cameras and computers supply an 360°
electronic eye for the autonomous vehicle
30 years of experience in embedded systems for buses, trucks and industrial vehicles
Specialized in software for navigation and supervision, develops in Toulouse the
driverless vehicle Easy Mile in cooperation with Ligier Automobile
Specialized in the use of spatial technologies in transportation
Research laboratory specialized in robotics, one of the world leaders concerning the
security of embedded systems
It is in Midi-Pyrénées where the embedded electronics in France was born when Renault and Bendix created Renix in 1979. Today
Toulouse has become a center of excellence for driverless vehicles (shuttles, industrial tractors, machine)
CRADLE OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF SATELLITE NAVIGATION
Center of excellence for GNSS (Global
Navigation Satellite System)
Interactive multimedia GIS guide
(geographic information system)
Guidance systems for mobile machinery
(personal robots, agricultural machines)
Urban car-sharing
Indoor geo-localization solutions
EGNOS operator (European Geostationary
Navigation Overlay Service)
Indoor geo-localization systems
and services
Mobility solutions (diffusion of real-time
information to users, fleet management)
Navigation with Mobil’in City
Contribution to the Galileo and EGNOS
programs
Global leader in spatial telecommunications
and in EGNOS
European Leader and number 3 worldwide for
spatial industries. Satnav: Galileo, Geo-
Intelligence services…
Conducts the French spatial politics. Technical center of
excellence for spatial applications.
Satnav: GALILEO & EGNOS

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3) CLOSE MARKETS & NEW TECHNOLOGIES
ONCOPOLE CANCER CAMPUS
Bio park + Compounds
Library
Regenerative medecine
Biotech Incubator
Cancer research instituteDrug discovery
Pharma industry
Cancer hospital
 540 acres (220 hectares)
 1,2 billion euros public and private investment
 300.000 sqm real estate capacities

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4) A LARGE CHOICE OF PARTNERS & CONTRACTORS
AVIATION
EMBEDDED
SYSTEMS
NUMÉRIQUESPACE SANTÉSANTÉ DIGITALHEALTH

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5) LOTS OF STUDENTS IN THE BEST SCHOOLS
1st university destination choice of students (L’Etudiant, 2015)
Over 120,000 students
15,000 foreign students
4Universities
10technicalschools
7specializedschools

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6) WORLD CLASS RESEARCH CENTERS
5% of GDP in R&D
(2014)
First of French regions
40% of executives
in R&D
First of French regions
15,000 Researchers

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7) UNIQUE CAMPUS & BUSINESS AREAS
MONTAUDRAN
AEROSPACE CAMPUS
ONCOPOLE
CAMPUS
TRAIN STATION
BUSINESS AREA
Oncopole campus
Aerospace campus
Downtown Business area
220 hectares campus | €1.2 billion investment
300,000 sqm real estate capacity | 1500 researchers| 4000 jobs
56 ha | 1,100 accommodations| 50,000 sqm formation and
research | 190,000 sqm tertiary sector| 20,000 sqm retailing
500,000 sqm for housing, retailing and other activities
200 ha | 30,000 offices | 47M passengers expected in 2035

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8) COMPETITIVE COSTS FOR SETTING UP YOUR BUSINESS
Rank Cities 2013 2014
1 Aix-Marseille 150€ - 270€ 150€ - 300€
2 Lyon 150€ - 270€ 135€ - 260€
3 Lille 135€ - 220€ 140€ - 220€
4 Toulouse 130€ - 200€ 137€ - 220€
5 Bordeaux 125€ - 180€ 125€ - 200€
Average rent for commercial real estate properties in French metropolises
Rank Cities Gross salary 2013 (€)
1 Paris 39,800
2 Aix-en-Provence 37,400
3 Lyon 36,000
4 Bordeaux 35,800
5 Nantes & Nancy 34,300
7 Toulouse 33,900
8 Grenoble 33,500
9 Lille 33,500
Average gross salary in French metropolises
Average apartment rent in main French cities
Source : CBRE 2015
Source : Se loger.com 2013
Source : APEC 2014
Rank Cities
Rent
€/sqm/month
1 Paris (city center) 22.70
2 Nice 13.30
3 Marseille 11.8
4 Montpellier 11.8
5 Toulon 11.1
6 Lyon 11
7 Lille 10.9
8 Nantes 10.6
9 Rennes 10.4
10 Toulouse 10.4

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9) A UNIQUE QUALITY OF LIFE TO ATTRACT TALENTS

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10) A FREE ASSISTANCE IN EACH STEP OF YOUR SET-UP
Invest In Toulouse provides free and confidential assistance during
each step of your set-up and development in Toulouse.
Check Your Idea Launch Your Project Develop Your Project
French company laws and tax
information
Sector information (potential suppliers,
customers, R&D, specific training..)
Financial options (social wages, utilities,
optimizing your cost structure…)
Presentation of real estates options, pre-
selection of most suitable sites
Investment engineering and pooling with
public support
Assistance in recruiting and company
services
Facilitating administrative formalities and
family housing & schools
Support in company promotion and
communications
Local networking (corporation clubs,
competitiveness clusters…)
Supporting commercial development
with potential partners

20. @i2toulouse
Invest In Toulouse
@i2tSilvia
Silvia Ferrari
Business Development Director
Tel: +33 (0)5 34 25 58 24
Mob: +33 (0)6 18 38 12 70
Email : s.ferrari@i2toulouse.fr