French technology clusters Route des Lasers and Elopsys merge to become ALPHA-RLH

Posté le 02 janvier 2017

Route des Lasers, a competitiveness cluster for photonics and laser technology companies, and Elopsys, a competitiveness cluster for photonics, microwave and digital technologies, today announce they will merge to become ALPHA-RLH®.

Aggregate skills in photonics, lasers, microwave and digital technologies will enable ALPHA-RLH to prioritize strategic innovations for national defense. The new cluster’s expanded capacity will further enrich the support provided to SME members exporting to global markets.

The new cross-disciplinary technology cluster ALPHA-RLH inherits 250 members, including many major global organizations: Thales Group, Dassault Aviation, Airbus Safran Launchers, Safran Helicopters, as well as CEA, a world leading microelectronic and nanotechnology research center. Cluster members have contributed to economic growth and development in the Aquitaine region (pop. 5.8 million) by directly generating close to 6,500 highly skilled jobs and indirectly creating a further 20,000. ALPHA-RLH sees  strong potential to increase membership by 20 – 30 per cent by 2018; it has already identified more than 250 eligible firms that could benefit from the cluster’s expansion, greater efficiency of scale and synergy...

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