Cities of Innovation: Lyon
Key indicators
ICT Infrastructure
FTTH network coverage 2019
Wireless network availability 2019
— ‘Fibre Grand Lyon’ (FTTO) deployment in the metropole with broadband speed up to several Gbps — 100% FTTH coverage by 2022
Local, national and international transport links
Local airport
Direct flight destinations (8.7 million passengers)
— Main train stations|passengers: · Perrache|28,100 daily · Part-Dieu|125,000 daily · Saint-Exupery|2,000 daily — 5 motorways
University links and access to talent
QS World University ranking (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon)
Public and private research labs
— 2nd research and higher education cluster in France with 155,000 students and 13,300 researchers — Collaborative research platforms such as AxelOne, Provademse and Centre d’Infectiologie — 46 contracts with the European research council
Costs and availability of workspace
Co-working spaces
Average office rent
— 29 co-working spaces in Lyon and 13 in Greater Lyon — 3 entrepreneurial clusters (La Duchere, Givors, Neuville- sur-Soane) covering 19,000 m2 to welcome entrepreneurs and start-uppers
City support for start-ups and SMEs
Initiatives
Non-profit organization
— As part of the Smart Lyon Metropole Initiative the Greater Lyon data platform gives a wide free access to metropolitan data — Lyon French Tech acts as an entry point for innovative entrepreneurs in the city of Lyon in order to accelerate the development of their projects
Financial support and access to investors & accelerators
Living lab
Accelerator (Open April 2019)
— Tuba is an innovation, incubation and acceleration space to stimulate the creation of innovative services regarding open data — H7 will be the biggest accelerator in Greater Lyon, fostering collaboration between firms and scale-ups to develop qualitative and economically reliable projects