Business news from Greater Lyon

More than 400 companies from the Lyon digital ecosystem signed the "Lyon digital hub" manifesto signalling the city’s intention to be a part of the "French Tech" initiative. The document was handed over...

The official launch of the Opticities European project, which is all about smart urban mobility, took place on 2 December 2013 in Lyon.

On 25 November 2013 the Lyon-St Etienne consortium for microscopy (CLYM) unveiled an electronic microscope which is unique in France (le Ly-EtTEM) and opened the new building in Villeurbanne which will be its...

The 2013 special Territoria prize for "support for employment and growth" was awarded to Greater Lyon, on 13 November 2013, for its "Little gems" program aimed at high development potential SMEs.

The Accinov innovation platform was inaugurated on 7 November 2013, in the very heart of Lyon Gerland's Biopole.

The Board of Directors of Bioaster, the Technology Research Institute focused on infectious diseases and microbiology, announced the appointment of Tom Shepherd as Chief executive officer, in September 2013.

Extended by the State until 31 December 2014, the urban free zone system (French acronym: ZFU) helps to open up disadvantaged neighbourhoods and applies to 4 sectors of Greater Lyon: explore the ZFU in the...

The first stone of Gerland 2, the future production site of the pharmaceutical laboratory Aguettant, was laid on 4 July 2013 in the heart of the Biopôle at Lyon Gerland.

In the first half of 2013, 208 files concerning acquisitions, sales, leases and other exchanges of land were brought before the deliberative committees of Greater Lyon Authority: here the focus is on 2...

In June 2013, ANF Immobilier, the Caisse d'Epargne Rhône-Alpes and DCB International invested EUR 100 million for the construction of the future site of Alstom Transport in Lyon Carré de Soie: the Silky.