The Patras Science Park is a

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located in

Patras Patras (; ; Katharevousa and ; ) is Greece's List of cities in Greece, third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens. The city is built at the foot of Mount Panachaiko ...

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near the

University of Patras The University of Patras (UPatras; , ''Panepistímio Patrón'', ΠΠ) is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of department ...

and the University Hospital of Rio. The site is the home for many high technology companies in Western Greece.

Companies

The following companies and institutes are current or former residents of the Science Park: * Atmel, A

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-based Semiconductor company *Analogies SA, a high speed wired and wireless connectivity

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company *ByteMobile, acquired by Citrix Systems * Nanoradio, a Swedish fabless wireless connectivity semiconductor company, acquired by

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* Think Silicon, an embedded GPU company * Velti, a mobile marketing and advertising company

References

External links

Patras Science Park
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