• on the main international north-south routes through France (45% of European goods traffic goes through Burgundy)
• on the east-west routes linking the Atlantic Coast to Eastern Europe

Located at the gates of Paris and Lyon:

• northern Burgundy is an hour’s drive from Paris
• southern Burgundy is an hour’s drive from Lyon

Connected to the major cities of France and Europe:

• from the six high-speed train stations in Burgundy to Paris, Lyon, Marseille, London, Brussels and Basel, etc.
• within four hours’ by high-speed train to Europe’s main business centres
• close to the major international airports of Paris, Lyon, Geneva and Mulhouse-Basel

• Vitagora: the Taste-Nutrition-Health Innovation network promoting the emergence of innovation for agro-food sector firms
• PNB: Nuclear industry cluster: skills platform for the nuclear sector with a worldwide outlook

Business clusters/Networks:

• ACE: AgroComposites Enterprises cluster: Enterprises cluster, support for agro-materials projects
• GA2B cluster: active building management
• Wind for Future cluster : wind turbines
• MecateamCluster: design, construction, and maintenance of mobile plant and machinery
• Nevers Magny-Cours motorsports performance cluster

• GIE Pharm’image: excellence cluster for pharmaco-imaging research
• Nicéphore Cité: platform for exchange in the areas of image, sound, and digital engineering
• Agronov: technical cluster for innovative businesses engaged in the agro-environment and agro-materials

Industrial sectors:

• Allizé Plasturgie Bourgogne (plastics)
• Aprovalbois (timber)
• ARIA Bourgogne (agri-food industry)
• BIVB (wine industry)
• Bourgogne Numérique (digital technology)
• Package in Bourgogne (packaging industry)
• Pierre de Bourgogne (stone industry)

• 45 000 students
• University of Burgundy and its six university sites: Auxerre, Chalon-sur-Saône, Dijon, Le Creusot, Mâcon, Nevers
• 6 engineering colleges:
  • AgroSup Dijon (agronomics, food, and environment),
  • Arts et Métiers ParisTech Cluny (engineering),
  • ESIREM (materials, computer science and electronics),
  • ISAT (automobile and transport),
  • ITII (industrial engineering),
  • SupInfo (computer science)
• ESC (business school)
• Sciences-Po Dijon (political science)
• ESAAB (applied arts)
• Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts (fine arts)

• More than 1 500 teaching and research staff, 29 accredited research units at Burgundy University
• 1 SATT Grand-Est (technology transfer)
• 1 regional incubator: PREMICE
• 6 major areas of research:
  • Food and environment
  • Health and molecular engineering
  • Photonics and advanced materials
  • Learning and health
  • Heritage and territories
  • Vines and wines
• INRA Dijon (national institute for agricultural research)
• CSGA (taste and food science centre)
• Burgundy regional teaching hospital
• CGFL (cancer centre)

Numerous schemes for developing French infrastructure go through Burgundy and promote consolidation of traffic flows and pooling of facilities.

Burgundy is:

• business property up to 20% less expensive than in Paris and Lyon
• extensive land and property for business, plus latest generation buildings
• a wide range of real-estate on offer (tertiary, industrial, and technical)
• many on-site and nearby services
• dynamic employment areas