Greater Lyon involves....

	1,720,000 residents (in 2005),
	GDP 59 billion euros (Equals the GDP of the Lisbonne or Antwerp regions),
	Nearly 34,500 euro average GDP per resident versus a 23,500 euro average for EU-27,
	over 130,000 businesses accounting,
	780,000 jobs,
	11,800 business start-ups,
	124,000 students,
	10,000 researchers,
	5 competitive clusters and 2 centres of excellence,
	7,5 % unemployment (2nd quarter 2007)
	more than 500 public and private laboratories.

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Greater Lyon provides a sustainable base territory for companies and investments.

Discover our investment and setting up opportunities:

	property and real estate
	commerce
	hotel tourism development
	convention and exhibition centres
	economic areas

Greater Lyon proposes supporting the Social and Solidarity Economy  as an essential component of the local area’s economic development. Discover a dynamic, meaningful approach to entrepreneurship...

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Thanks to a new marketing strategy, spearheaded by the “ONLYLYON” brand, the Lyon metropolitan area has now well and truly entered the competition for European and international fame...

The objective: to become a benchmark among major European cities.

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