The Lyon-Gerland Biopole offers:
 | A high-level research and production environment, doubled up with all the advantages of a city center district
| | Sports (Gerland stadium) and cultural (Halle Tony Garnier) facilities, large public open spaces (Gerland park)
| | The proximity of major transport infrastructures: served by the subway, which links it directly to the TGV (high-speed train) station, and to the Part-Dieu business district
| | 8,000 jobs, including 5,000 in the hi-tech sector
| | A high-level research environment: 26 public research laboratories
| | 1,000 researchers and teachers, 3,000 Life Science students
| | Higher education and training institutes (ENS Sciences, ENS Lettres, and Lyon 1 and Lyon 3 Universities)
| | Internationally renowned companies (Aventis-Pasteur, MSD…)
| | The P4 laboratory, the World Health Organization
| | Immuno-virology and biomaterials skill areas
| | Business creation assistance: bio-incubator, business incubator, scientific and technology centers (over 7,000 at the end of 2003) |
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Companies already installed
| Companies: Aventis Pasteur, Aguettant, Coletica, Episkin, Marcel Mérieux Laboratory, Mérial, Synbiotics, CERVI, CTC, OMS, ETS, etc.
| | Public institutes: Agence de l'eau (water agency), EFS Rhône-Alpes (French Blood Agency), ENS Lettres et Sciences Humaines, ENS - Lyon, IBCP*, Claude Bernard Lyon University, etc.
| | Laboratories and institutes: Institut de Biologie et de Chimie des Protéines (IBPC - institute of biology and chemistry of proteins), Fondation Mérieux, and Jean Mérieux P4 Laboratory. |
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