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Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970~84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. Several institutions of higher learning are also located here, along with the European headquarters of W3C.
Sophia Antipolis is named after Sophie Glikman-Toumarkine, the wife of French Senator Pierre Laffitte, founder of the park, and incidentally, Sophia, the greek word for wisdom, and Antipolis, the ancient Greek name of Antibes.
A partial list of companies and institutions located in Sophia Antipolis:

3Roam
Amadeus, a travel industry IT company
Hewlett Packard
Accenture
Air France
CERAM Business School, European School of Business
CSR plc
Hitachi Sophia-Antipolis laboratory
Infineon
NXP Semiconductors
Schneider-electric
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis unit
Labs from École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
Nicox
Rohm and Haas
Fortinet
Polytech'Nice Sophia, (polytechnic school of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis).
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), the European home of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
SAP AG, SAP Labs France
Institut Eurécom
UDcast
GROUPE SET language school http://www.groupeset.com
Cadence Design Systems
Honeywell
Orange
France Telecom

Sophia Antipolis also benefits from the close proximity of Thales Alenia Space (Cannes), IBM (La Gaude), and Texas Instruments (Villeneuve-Loubet).

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