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Over the last decade, Calvados has made remarkable inroads into the ICT market.
New companies are starting up each year, as a result of the many partnerships between industry and academia.
It is in the electronic banking sector that the county has developed its greatest expertise, making a name for itself throughout Europe as a data security and electronic banking hub. Indeed it was here that the very first smart cards were tested !
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 Economic importance
- 12,000 employees in Lower Normandy, France’s 8th leading region.
- In Calvados, half of all jobs in the ICT sector are in manufacturing.
- The two flagship sectors are electronics and telecommunications.
- The data security and electronic banking sector has been recognized as a competitiveness clusters.
Key players
- data processing and electronic banking , with cutting-edge companies such as Fime (electronic banking test centre), JWare Technologies (secure transactions software designer), EDSI (operating system development) and Highdeal (software for dynamic transaction management).
- multimedia and IP (Internet Protocol) : NetCentrex (software development for IP telephony), Eldim (world leader for screen measurement and control), etc.
- electronics and instrumentation :
NXP Semiconductors founded in 2006 by Philips Semiconductors (in Caen since 1957), production of integrated circuits and components for the telecommunications market and home electronics), Oberthur Card Systems (world’s leading smart card manufacturer), Axians (network and secure services integrator), Chauvin Arnoux (measuring equipment), Crouzet Automatismes (R&D and manufacture of electronic goods)
Training for jobs in ICT
ENSICAEN offers first-class courses, unique of their kind in Europe, leading to a “microcircuits and application” technical degree and an engineering diploma in “electronic banking and security” . ENSICAEN supplies the French industry with a quarter of all its electronic banking engineers. A wide range of technical college diplomas, degrees and postgraduate diplomas, as well as in-house training leading to qualifications.
Research hubs at the service of industry
A great many success stories have been made possible as the result of cooperation agreements between France Télécom’s R&D Centre, the ENSICAEN engineering school, Philips Semiconductors and the University.
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 Contact us :
Calvados Stratégie
Espace Gardin,
40 avenue de l'hippodrome
14000 Caen
Tel : 00 33 (0)2 31 15 62 70
Fax : 00 33 (0)2 31 15 62 75
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The electronic banking industrial partners club
The network effect |
Under the impetus of France Télécom R&D, ENSICAEN and Caen-Lower Normandy University, fifty or so firms in this sector have got together to form a nationwide club of electronic banking partners. Its core missions are to promote local skills, provide students with work experience and possibly even job placements, and initiate new research projects.
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Calvados County Council initiatives
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