- 3rd region in France in number of jobs: 100,000 jobs
- 2 “French Tech Capitals” labels, French tech Toulouse, French Tech Méditerranée (Gard, Hérault) which includes Montpellier, and 2 “French Tech Communities” (Perpignan, Pyrénées Adour)
- Digital clusters: Digital 113 – La Mêlée
- Thematic clusters: RoboticsPlace , Push Start (games) , Hexatrust and Cyber’Occ (cybersecurity), Iot Valley, Aniti (AI and big data)
- Incubators: Montpellier International Business Incubator (MIBI), Montpellier Business & Innovation Center (BIC), Nubbo (Toulouse)
- Strengths: IoT, robotics, software certification, business software publishing, virtual reality, open source, smart city, cybersecurity, Big Data, eHealth , cultural and creative industrie
They chose Occitanie
Adelya, Expleo, CGI, Continental, Dell, IBM, IGE XAO, Intel, Collins Aerospace, Sogeti, Sopra Steria, Ubisoft, Vector.