Aquitaine Development Agency

Key Competitive Attractions

With its active support for business clusters, Aquitaine Development Agency works to promote industry in the region. The agency prepares industrialists to anticipate changes in their business sectors and supports those who encounter difficulties. Aquitaine Development Agency accompanies companies in R&D projects; it helps them to increase their performance, to access markets and to present their work at professional exhibitions. Aquitaine Development Agency also coordinates investment projects for the industrial development of the region.

Assistance and Support For New Business Investors

The Aquitaine region has a very ambitious overall policy:

• it supports research and higher education
• it helps SMEs and VSEs at all phases of their development
• it helps develop small-scale enterprises to create new jobs
• it emphasizes technology transfer and company innovation