Why Invest in France?

New Investment Champion in Europe
In 2022, France welcomed 1,725 foreign investment projects, which created or maintained 58,810 jobs. This amounted to a record growth of +31% in the number of jobs compared with 2021. These results hereby prove investors’ confidence in France. Read more.

Country of Talent and Enterprise
It is no coincidence that “entrepreneur” is a French word. In 2021, 995,868 new businesses were created (+17.4% compared with 2020), reaching a new record. In all the various economic sectors, France has the key strengths conducive to setting up a thriving business: easy access to capital and finance, a dynamic ecosystem for startups, highly qualified human resources, as well as a sound legal framework. Read more.

Key player in innovation and tech
In 2020, France was ranked first in Europe in the Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators. It also outstripped all its European counterparts in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA – for the seventh year in a row. It brought the largest delegation of startups with 140 French startups of which 135 were to Eureka Park at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in 2022. Read more.

Key strengths of France’s regions
The diversity of France’s regions, coupled with their high-quality infrastructure and workforces, are powerful drivers of their attractiveness to investors. Amid the competition in Europe to attract foreign investment, the thriving economies of France’s regions and cities are often a decisive factor. Read more.

France offers a wide range of thriving industries
Aerospace, automotive, agri-food, energy transition, nuclear, medical devices… France is fully committed to reinventing and shaping tomorrow’s high-technology industries. Its key objective is to keep and strengthen its place among the major industrial powers by setting and improving a comprehensive, favorable ecosystem through strong governmental support, efficient human capital, competitive infrastructures, and an innovative environment. Read more.