Midi-Pyrenees, Land of Innovation and Competitiveness

Presentation and Key Figures

Development in aeronautics and space has been the driving force behind growth in IT, electronics and telecommunications in Midi-Pyrenees. Today, with close to 40,000 jobs, the region Midi-Pyrenees is a mojor player in ICT development in France.

From this foundation, industrialists and research teams have anticiped new uses and are now diversifying towards fields such as :
- cooperative work
- linguistic engineering
- modeling and virtual reality
- man-machine interfaces
- grid computing and system security
- signal processing

All these fiels of expertise have been developed through a network of over 3,000 high-performance establishments, recognized for their excellence both in France and abroad. This vitality has led to the creation of 15,000 new jobs in Midi-Pyrenees over the last 15 years.

2,797 establishments

39,000 employees

	IT	Telecommunications	Electronics
N° of Companies	2,106	382	309
Personnel	16,447	15,174	7,383
Distribution (%)	43	36	21
AV rate (VA/CA) %	35	51	30