Access to regional and international networks

The networks established by AEE in Boston and Osaka are available for use by all Essonne-based companies. In the same way, the business networks developed in Essonne and the Paris region can be deployed quickly to support the establishment of international companies, especially those from the US and Japan.
Spain and southern Europe provide the focus for the Orly Centre International project, which is managed in association with Aéroports de Paris and the Val-de-Marne.

USA: a shared office in Boston

The Groupement d'Intérêt Economique BioTeam Paris Région, created by the AEE in association with the Institut Pasteur, opened an area office in Boston in March 2003. The office is financed through a public-private partnership involving CCIE and Genopole.

Boston was chosen based on the density and dynamism of its biotechnology cluster (250 biotech companies and 28,000 jobs). Since the Boston office opened, it has established a network of 600 contacts. It closely monitors companies and leading players in the Massachusetts biotechnology cluster.

The Boston office currently represents eight members: AEE, Institut Pasteur, Hybrigenics, Biosystems International, Genomic Vision, Mauna-Kea Technologies, Watch Frog and Ariana Pharma. (Visit the website at: www.bioteam.fr)

In 2006, the office was expanded to include other companies in the information technology sector, in association with Optics Valley and the System@tic competitive cluster.

The AEE will take part in the BIO show in Chicago this April, as well as two business missions in San Francisco (June) and Boston (December), performed in conjunction with the CCIE.

JAPAN/ASIA: two annual missions

The AEE coordinated eight missions to Asia, involving representatives from some 30 biotech companies from the Paris region. The mission gave rise to visits from such pharmaceutical companies as Shionogi, Tanabe and Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals as well as such biotech companies as Anges MG. Business meetings with Essonne-based biotech companies and visits to the Genopole were organized as part of these visits.

The leading 100 Japanese pharmaceutical companies and more than 200 Japanese biotechnology and life-sciences companies are now familiar with the Paris region biotech cluster.

In 2006, the AEE will take part – in collaboration with the CCIE – in a business mission to coincide with BIO Japan (Osaka, September), as well as an institutional mission to China with Genopole (May).

SPAIN

A network of French and Spanish partners was created in 2005 with the aim of developing economic flows between Spain and the southern Paris region around Orly airport. Its members include the AEE and the CCIE, the Val de Marne Development Agency, Aéroports de Paris, Iberia and the Chambre de Commerce Franco Espagnole.

MIPIM 2005 and a series of missions organized to Barcelona (including Barcelona Meeting Point) and Madrid enabled AEE to identify several partners interested in the venture (especially in Catalonia) that are likely to play a business development role for the Orly Centre International and, on a broader level, Essonne (La Caixa, CCI Française de Barcelone, CCI de Barcelone and COPCA). In addition, several Spanish investors have begun working with the AEE on a number of special projects.

The AEE will organize two missions to Barcelona and Madrid in February and autumn 2006.