For over 25 years, Montpellier has invested heavily to provide the ideal location for businesses to locate to. Today, Montpellier Technopole manages 13 science, business and logistics parks - many of them sector-specific - around the agglomeration. All parks are served by ADSL telecoms and many have high-capacity fibre-optic cabling capable of handling 2.5 Gbps. and even beyond.
Our flagship science parks include:





EUROMEDECINE - an Interactive Science Park for the Biomedical sector

Montpellier Technopole's Euromédecine Science Park is the largest Science Park in the city. This 150-Hectare prime site is dedicated to the Biomedical sector and currently houses over 200 businesses, employing over 5,000 people.

Cap Gamma - Your Bioscience Real Estate Solution in Montpellier
Montpellier's new bioscience innovation centre - Cap Gamma - is also located on Euromédecine.

Cap Gamma provides 7,000m² of state-of-the-art laboratory space in a high-security building, making it one of Europe's key locations for bioscience businesses. Fully flexible units are available from 100m², pre-equipped with communal networks.

For full details, visit the dedicated Cap Gamma website.


Key features: 3 miles from Montpellier city centre and railway station, including the High Speed Train (TGV)5 miles from Montpellier Fréjorgues airport (MPL)Frequent bus services offering interconnections with the area-wide bus and Tramway network.Close proximity to: University Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Orthodontics, University Supercomputing Centre, the 3,000-bed University Teaching Hospital - France's 4th largestChosen by: Sanofi-Synthélabo, Horiba, Siemens Health Services, AFSSAPS (French Medicine Approvals Agency)

MILLENAIRE and EUREKA - IT, Call Centres and Incubators in a Prestigious Location

Montpellier's IT revolution is not a flash in the pan. Indeed, it dates back to 1965 when IBM chose the city as one of its key European installations. Today, Montpellier Technopole's Millénaire Science Park - which has clustered around IBM - houses over 300 businesses, representing over 6,000 jobs, mainly in the IT and service sectors.

Such has been the success of the Millénaire Park that a new science park - Eureka - is now available for development. Adjoining Millénaire, Eureka is already home to Dell's Southern European Headquarters and Call Centre, as well as their EMEA IT Headquarters.

Cap Omega - Incubation for Innovative Start-ups

Eureka is also home to Montpellier's second state-of-the-art business incubator for innovative ICT start-ups - Cap Omega. Cap Omega provides 5,300m² of networked office space in a prestigious high-security building. For full details, visit the dedicated Cap Omega website.

A Clear Incentive
Eureka is strategically positioned in the zone designated European Objective 2. Businesses on the Eureka Science Park therefore benefit from the maximum grant aid permitted under EC regulations.

Key features:

1 mile by expressway from the A9 Lyon-Barcelona motorway1 mile by expressway from Montpellier Fréjorgues airport (MPL)2 miles from Montpellier city centre and railway station, including the High Speed Train (TGV)Frequent bus services and ? mile from the nearest Tramway station and the Odysseum leisure complexChosen by: IBM, PalmSource's European R&D centre and opthamology leaders Bausch & Lomb

AGROPOLIS - Growing Agronomy and Plant Biotechnology

Close to Euromédecine, Montpellier's Agropolis Campus and Science Park is home to all the major French research institutes in Agronomy and Plant Biotechnology, including CIRAD, INRA, ENSA-M, the CNRS and IRD. There are also 2 foreign institutes close by: the CSIRO and the USDA-ARS.

In all, Agropolis houses nearly 3,000 researchers - the highest concentration of Agronomy researchers in the world.

Key features:
3 miles from Montpellier city centre and railway station, including the High Speed Train (TGV) 5 miles from Montpellier Fréjorgues airport (MPL) Frequent bus services offering interconnections with the area-wide bus and Tramway network