Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Agnès Paillard, Aerospace Valley President, signing the contract to set up and operate the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) Sud France, at the ESA Pavilion, Paris Air Show, 20 June 2013. The centre will have five branch offices, in Biarritz, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Toulon and Sophia Antipolis, and is managed by Aerospace Valley, supported by France’s CNES space agency and Pole Pegase.