Innovation

The “Starry garden” is a work of Kinya Maruyama, a Japanese artist, made in connection with the Paimboeuf inhabitants.

It is one of the 6 pieces of work Estuaire Nantes <> Saint Nazaire 2007-2009-2011 that are installed permanently between Nantes and St Nazaire along the Loire.

Yes, the 5th other works (described on Invest in Europe blog) are nice and interesting : “Les anneaux - D. Buren & P. Bouchain, “Did I miss something ? ” - Jeppe Hein, “L’Observatoire” - Tadashi Kawamata, “Suite de Triangles Saint Nazaire 2007″ - Felice Varini and “Misconceivable” - Erwin Wurm (please tell that this work must be installed permanently in Le Pellerin !).

But I do prefer the “Starry Garden”.
To understand why, now, watch a piece of a video about the “Starry Garden” and listen to the bells and the wind ! So nice and quiet !

I am pleased to announce that you can watch videos on the exhibitors of the California Tech Showcase (CTS) as well as the ones of the Transatlantic Green Platform (TGP) - both events of the World Investment Conference WIC held last 5 and 6 June in La Baule - on our channel created on Youtube : the investwesternfrance’s channel.

You can also find some videos of start-ups from Nantes area as well as some videos of the Invest in Western France Agency team talking about their missions and… a lot of extras, very soon !
Humm, what about the Invest in Western France Agency lip dub ???

Jean-Noël Gadreau, CTO and co-founder, shows Thierry Bezier of Intruders TV his company Wiztivi during the CTS 08 in La Baule.

Wiztivi is a French start-up based in Carquefou, near Nantes and it develops an application that allows websites to be viewed on TV through SetTop Boxes using only the remote to surf abd enables TV channels to propose a wide range of interactive services.
Wiztivi was one of the European start-ups that exhibited at CTS -California Tech Showcase in La Baule last 5 and 6 June during the World Investment Conference.

More interviews and videos about CTS made by T. Bezier can be found on Intruders TV. He interviewed most of the CTS/TGP exhibitors.  (More details in the next post.)

During the CTS - California Tech Showcase, we also welcomed on 6 June, some start-ups involved in clean and green tech.
Regenatec is one of them. This company designs, manufactures and installs the world’s most advanced pure plant oil (PPO) biofuel conversion systems for commercial diesel engines.

Here is the link to Damien’s blog about cleantech (the latest blog of Western France) that shows a video about Regenatec, a UK exhibitor of the TGP (Transatlantic Green Platform) at La Baule WIC on June 6 and 7, 2008.

MHS Industries was one of the European start-ups at CTS - the California Tech Showcase in La Baule last June 6.

MHS Industries is a French High Technology group that deals in electronic components and systems as well as equipment for the High Reliability markets such as Space, Avionics and Bionics…
The headquarters of MHS Electronics are based in Atlanpole in Nantes.
MHS Industries via its subsidiary MHS Equipment, designs and manufactures UHV thin layer deposition systems. It has finalized a process/equipment combination for producing PEM Fuel Cells Membrane Electrode Assemblies using plasma deposition techniques. This led to the creation of MHS Energies.   

Jean-Louis Kindler, President of MHS Equipment and Director of New Activities at MHS Industries tells us more about his new technology shown at the CTS 2008 : an innovative process to manufacture the core part of fuel cells.

During the 6th June pm and evening, Invest in Western France and Nantes Metropole welcomed some exhibitors and experts of the CTS - California Tech Showcase in Nantes to show them some places of this city.

We went on having talks with them during a relaxed programme in Nantes.
It had been a pleasant time and made Californian people as well as European ones discover Nantes after La Baule where they stayed during the World Investment Conference.

Below some pictures of the relaxed programme which was : private cruise discovery on the Erdre, guided tour of the Machines de l’Ile (many thanks to Pierre Orefice for his explanations) - the elephant and the machines fascinated our guests ! Last but not least : an evening “cheese and wine” and … dried sausage with a course of wine tasting.