Endnotes

1. Institute National de la Statistique et des Etudes EconomiquesInstitut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiq (INSEE), www.insee.fr.

2. Fondation Sophia Antipolis, www.sophia-antipolis.org.

3. Material taken from the author's interview with Michel Bernasconi, CERAM.

4. CERAM Sophia Antipolis, www.ceram.edu.

5. CERAM Sophia Antipolis, High-Tech Entrepreneurship Chair , www.ceram.edu/v1/site_fr/esc/chaire-entr.htm.

6. See International Venture Capital Summit at www.ivcs.org for further information.

7. For further information and figures see "Le monde entier investit dans les start-up de Sophia Antipolis," May 14, 2001, a study (in French) on venture capital by Michel Bernasconi and Franck Moreau, www.ceram.edu/site_fr/chaires/dynamis.htm.

8. EURECOM Sophia Antipolis, www.eurecom.fr.

9. "Sophia Antipolis- the Right Place to Invest," leaflet published by SAEM Sophia Antipolis C te d'Azur.

10. Telecom Valley, www.telecom-valley.fr.

11. INRIA, www.inria.fr.