Contact
Jean-Francois BOISSON
Domaine du petit Arbois
Avenue Louis Philibert
13545, Aix en Provence Cedex 4
France
Ph +33 6 74 98 47 06
jean-francois.boisson(at)pole-pegase.com
Website
Pôle Pégase
Cluster Description
Facts & Figures
| Number of companies | 160 members (140 SME’s) |
| Number of employees | 18,000 direct jobs |
| Number of research institutes | 30 |
| Other cluster members | Cities, public bodies 100 |
Cluster Management
| Organizational form | Association | |
| Financing | French state | 50% |
| Regional gov | 30% | |
| Cities | 15% | |
| Members | 5% | |
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Cluster Competences and Strategy
Strengths & Competences
Pegase is focused on new air systems for new air usages such as use of airships for heavy load transportation, light UAV’s for observation, mission designed helicopters, ground effect airplanes, electricity powered Ultra Lights, HALE/MALE and Mini UAV's, satellites, ...and will constitute the best innovation and business ecosystem in order to fit with these objectives.
Pegase is still contributing to organise the best and most efficient supply chain around the key OEM's such as Eurocopter and Thales Alenia space.
Pegase addresses large state programmes requiring aerial aircrafts such as environmental hazard management, transportation in less structured territories, telecom and images distribution at regional area scale.
Pegase specifies and implements Innovation platforms in order to provide high level equipments for SMEs to improve their technological level in terms of advanced mechanics, human factors, and complex systems.
Pegase is SME centric and supports the EU programme "Think small first".
Pegase gathers 8 of the largest in-flight trial centre's in Europe: defenseand commercial airplanes, satellites, rockets, cars, helicopters, … for real in-flight stimulated and numeric trials.
Science & Research
- Heavy load airships
- Lights UAV’s
- Electricity powered light airplanes
- Stratospheric aircrafts
- Various technologies relate to these aircrafts
- Advanced mechanics and rapid manufacturing
- Human factor management
- Use of ICT for mission management and simulation
International Collaboration
Growing number of coops by the use of EU instruments and non-EU state agreements mainly with Brazil, Quebec, Mexico, and EU states
Main Challenges
- To create 10 000 jobs
- To support growth of SME up to 100 jobs
- To leverage the cluster effect
- To develop business coop and regional settlements
- To implement the most competitive ecosystem for domains focused by Pegase