Colorado and the Rhône-Alpes Region:
Natural Partners in Economic Development

No other European region and US state have as much in common:

• Remarkable symmetries in major business and research sectors, lifestyles, geography, and demographics
• Similar size and population
• Colorado is near the geographic center of the U.S. and the Rhône-Alpes region is at the crossroads between Italy, Spain and France. 
• Each has excellent road, rail and air transport, which provide ready access to major markets.
• Priority sectors in common include: renewable energy, IT/software, bioscience, nanotechnology research and micro/nano-electronics. 
• Colorado is the top recipient of federal research funds in the US and the Rhône-Alpes is second only to Paris in the amount of research funds received.

Press Release

Schneider Electric & Alstom launch a venture capital fund in innovative technologies for energy and the environment.

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CORA’s Mission & Goals

Our primary mission is to facilitate crossborder investment between Colorado and the Rhone-Alpes region.

To succeed in our mission, we have set four goals:

• Inform each region of the research and business attractions of the other.
• Build, motivate, and maintain a successful mutual interest-based network of partners capable of identifying and serving prospective investors.
• Provide excellent service & assistance to our partners.
• Achieve measurable results in terms of identifying qualified investors, new employment, new technologies, and other contributions to the economies of each region. 

In The News:

Article (in French) that appeared on November 6, 2009 in Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphine following the October 2009 Colorado delegation visit to Grenoble-Isere.
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Testimonials

“I would like to thank CORA for organizing our visit to Denver on March 19, 2009. The meetings and presentations were very interesting.  It will help us as we look toward new investments and networking for our business. Thanks a lot to CORA for helping us in our strategy of development.”
- Henri-Marc Michaud, INPG Enterprise

Click here for a video testimonial from Claude Graff of Schneider Electric