Sophia Antipolis

Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970~84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. Several institutions of higher learning are also located here, along with the European headquarters of W3C.

Sophia Antipolis is named after Sophie Glikman-Toumarkine, the wife of French Senator Pierre Laffitte, founder of the park, and incidentally, Sophia, the Greek word for wisdom, and "Antipolis", the ancient Greek name of Antibes.

A partial list of companies and institutions located in Sophia Antipolis:
* 3Roam
* ARM Limited
* Amadeus, a travel industry IT company
* Hewlett Packard
* Accenture
* Air France
* CERAM Business School, European School of Business
* CSR plc
* Hitachi Sophia-Antipolis laboratory
* Infineon
* NXP Semiconductors
* [http://www.telemecanique.com/en/index.htm Schneider-electric]
* European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
* INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis unit
* Labs from École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
* Nicox
* Rohm and Haas
* Fortinet
* Polytech'Nice Sophia, (polytechnic school of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis).
* European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), the European home of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
* SAP AG, SAP Labs France
* Institut Eurécom
* UDcast
* GROUPE SET language school http://www.groupeset.com
* Cadence Design Systems
* Honeywell
* Orange
* France Telecom
* MRL Technology

Sophia Antipolis also benefits from the close proximity of Thales Alenia Space (Cannes), IBM (La Gaude), and Texas Instruments (Villeneuve-Loubet).

External links

* [http://www.sophia-antipolis.org Sophia-Antipolis.org]
* Centre International de Valbonne (international school) [http://www.civfrance.com/]