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		<title>France: a strategic market for Indian IT consulting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/08/france-a-strategic-market-for-indian-it-consulting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[France's strengths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global IT services are part of a rapidly changing market. Indian IT consulting firms have traditionally operated in English-speaking markets, but the trend seems to be reversing as they set their sights on France. Pierre Audoin Consultants reports that in 2010 the sector grew by 2.2% in France, but by only 1.6% in Germany and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“France Attractiveness Scoreboard 2010” published</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/07/france-attractiveness-scoreboard-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France's image]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why have we decided to publish a scoreboard on France’s attractiveness as an investment location?
A great number of benchmarks examining the competitiveness of different economies, tax regimes, tertiary education systems and different business environments already exist, and each of them provides useful information. Yet many of them suffer from methodological limitations and, as such, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French aerospace industry taking off again with foreign companies in the co-pilot’s chair</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/07/french-aerospace-industry-taking-off-again-with-foreign-companies-co-pilots-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France's strengths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aerospace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Air Show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embraer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farnborough Air Show]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afii.fr/en/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Berlin Air Show celebrated its 100th birthday this year at a time when things are starting to look up. When it closed on June 13, Airbus walked out the door with US $15 billion of new orders in its pocket, or almost six months of work for the aircraft manufacturer. Its Chief Operating Officer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A regional network of excellence for every company</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/07/a-regional-network-of-excellence-for-every-company/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/07/a-regional-network-of-excellence-for-every-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France's strengths]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afii.fr/en/?p=358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[France is becoming more and more attractive as an investment location. Every region and every company, no matter how big or small, is now covered by networks for business, science and technology cooperation. And these networks are not exclusively reserved for French companies. Foreign investors are also very welcome to benefit from an innovation-friendly environment.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greater Paris: Welcome to a World City</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/07/greater-paris-welcome-to-a-world-city/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/07/greater-paris-welcome-to-a-world-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France's strengths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life in France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attractiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greater Paris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reforms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afii.fr/en/?p=338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been approved, signed and ratified: the City of Light is now to become a Greater City of Light. Last May 27, the French Senate passed a bill giving the green light to the ‘Greater Paris’ project. The goal? To create the most attractive city in the world for businesses. How? First, by promoting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedro Arcuri, a Brazilian researcher working in Montpellier: “France is a very attractive country for Brazilian scientists”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/pedro-arcuri-brazilian-researcher-working-in-montpellier-france-attractive-country-for-brazilian-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/pedro-arcuri-brazilian-researcher-working-in-montpellier-france-attractive-country-for-brazilian-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afii.fr/en/?p=333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February 2009: Pedro Arcuri arrived in Montpellier. Back then, when he was just starting out as the newly appointed director of LabEx (the “external laboratory” for Embrapa, Brazil’s equivalent to France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA), Mr. Arcuri acknowledges that “coming to France was a major decision. It was not an obvious choice either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France, a very real “virtual” market</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/france-a-very-real-virtual-market/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/france-a-very-real-virtual-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[France's strengths]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve already learned that the French are keen on going “green”. But less well known is their passion for new technology. This market has already achieved a degree of maturity and could open up a number of opportunities for foreign companies. In fact, the ICT sector generated turnover of €110.6 billion in 2009, or 15.5% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video games in France: abundant creativity serving a long-established market</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/video-games-in-france-abundant-creativity-serving-a-long-established-market/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/video-games-in-france-abundant-creativity-serving-a-long-established-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.afii.fr/en/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a game with as many plots and endings as there are players. “Heavy Rain”, the brainchild of French designer David Cage and his Paris-based studio Quantic Dream, is a ‘perfect storm’ that asks players to serve as the hero in a film-noir styled interactive drama. Players actually determine the dénouement through the choices they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at the 8th World Investment Conference in            La Baule</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/a-look-back-at-the-8th-world-investment-conference-in-la-baule/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/a-look-back-at-the-8th-world-investment-conference-in-la-baule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 8th World Investment Conference in La Baule saw Ernst &#38; Young present its annual European Attractiveness Survey.
France’s ranking this year is notable for three reasons:

Second after the United Kingdom for the number of job-creating foreign investment projects, as well as for the total number of jobs;
First in Europe for the three key sectors for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;D tax treatment and government support for R&amp;D tip the balance in France’s favor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/rd-tax-treatment-and-government-support-for-rd-tip-the-balance-in-france-favor/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2010/06/rd-tax-treatment-and-government-support-for-rd-tip-the-balance-in-france-favor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Invest in France Agency</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax credit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a sizeable domestic market and a large pool of engineers and scientists educated at top colleges and universities, France is already a prime potential location for foreign technology groups and R&#38;D operations. But it also holds another ‘trump card’ to swing decisions in its favor. A number of groups, including Huawei, Microsoft, and Intel, [...]]]></description>
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