Some 140 leaders of multinationals gathered on Monday for a mini-summit in Versailles at the invitation of Emmanuel Macron who is trying to convince decision-makers to bet on France in a post-Brexit context.
Two days before the world economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this summit of economic attractiveness called “Choose France” (“Choose France”) gathered, in particular, the leaders of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein, JP Morgan Jamie Dimon and Facebook Sheryl Sandberg.
Here are the investment announcements made by 12 companies on the occasion of this summit, which amount to 3.5 billion euros and 2,200 jobs over five years, according to the Elysee Palace (list in alphabetical order):
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The Paris site of FAIR, the group’s artificial intelligence research laboratory, will host 60 researchers and engineers and 40 doctoral students by 2022. The second part of the investment plan is to train 65,000 people in digital skills in France by the end of 2019. It will affect 50,000 people out of work by the end of 2019 in partnership with Pôle Emploi and 15,000 women.
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Composed of researchers and in partnership with the French academic community, this center will be responsible for working on machine learning, natural language or computer vision applicable to the fields of health, science, art and the environment.
Four spaces “Google’s Digital Workshops”, dedicated to digital culture and the training of French citizens “in order to improve their digital skills”, will also be created, the first in Rennes. In total, the goal is to train an additional 10,000 people per year.
The group had already announced in September that it would increase the headcount at its headquarters in the 9th arrondissement of Paris by almost 50% to 1,000 people.
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France becomes the fourth European country, after Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany, where Microsoft installs cloud infrastructure.
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This three-year project provides 900 million euros in clinical trials and research, in the new headquarters in Rueil-Malmaison and in the extension of the Huningue plant (Haut-Rhin).
The Swiss group reaffirmed its development ambitions in the field of biotechnology in France last year, through the finalization of the acquisition of just over three billion euros of Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), a French biotech in nuclear medicine.
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The German software provider has decided to invest will spend 150 million euros a year on research and development over the next five years.
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The South Korean agri-food group plans to create 45 jobs in the first phase “with significant additional potential”.
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This investment should make it possible to recruit 700 permanent employees and 100 temporary employees by 2020, to increase the capacity of the site to 300,000 vehicles per year compared to 240,000 currently. It is also planned to produce the fourth generation of the Yaris in 2020 and a new model in 2021.
Direct state financial assistance will be between 15 and 20 million euros.
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