Strategic Location

Burgundy is ideally located:
- 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
Business clusters and communities

Competitive clusters:
- 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
Excellence clusters, industrial sectors

Excellence clusters:
- 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:
Education and Training

- 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)
Research

- 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)
Business Property

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