« Capital Games », the video games cluster from Paris & Ile-de-France

Founded in december 2003, by Frédéric Weil independant video games producer and a dozen of video games studio based in Paris and its area, the 1901 law association « Capital Games » has a global target :

Alert local public organisms and politics around the video games industry identified in Paris has a promising and a potentialy thriving industry creating wealth and employment. And reach the goal that Paris and its area become one of the two or three french know-how hotspots in terms of video games production.

"Local Productive Systems", italian industrial ditricts, anglo-saxon clusters . Several names for the same reality : an efficient organization mode for SME

"SPL", "industrial districts", "clusters", notions applied to local economical development experiences, cover all the following main points (with sometimes some slight differences) :
- a concentration of SME on a geographycally limited territory determined by themselves,
- specialized in a specific field, around a specific know-how or a product
- competitors or complementary
- having the option to be supported by an animation strucutre and associating the other actors of this territory

For the Datar, the SPL notion covers :
"a specific productive organization localized on a territory related to an employement area. This organization works like an inter-dependant network made of productive units having similar or complementary activities which share the work (production or services companies, research centers, training centers, technological transfert and watching, etc.)".