The Dutch group, Eurosud BV, is intent upon developing a software incubator in the South of France called Eurosud-Calvisson, an industrial park that stands as Europe’s first ecology-based sustainable environment, a new standard by which other projects will be measured. Promoters are hoping the park will become the European centre for software development in multimedia, networking, graphics and simulation technology and will be offering low rents to start-ups along with access to computer systems, databases and libraries. The place is supposed to feature Europe’s first private teleport, a communications complex that transmits and receives information from a digital network via microwave antennas, satellites and fibre optic links. Phase one of the 2,200-acre project kicks off next year and they’re looking for takers. The place is on the A6 linking Nimes to Barcelona, 15 minutes from Nimes or Montpellier – where the city’s Technopole has been assiduously wooing high-technology businesses (CI No 1,897), an hour to Marseille, 20 minutes to the Mediterranean.
