Hautes-Alpes Réseau PME

Hautes-Alpes Réseau PME

The economic development primarily relies on women and men animated with the entrepreneurship spirit. To encourage and facilitate their action, improve communication and the rise of new ideas or projects, Hautes-Alpes Développement provides support to HARP (Hautes-Alpes SMEs Network), a network of entrepreneurs who expressed interest in the economic development of the Hautes-Alpes. Since 2007, HARP provides its members with information on economic events and business opportunities, encouraging them to invest or give birth to new business projects in the Hautes-Alpes.

HARP : an energy collector and catalyst for change


...for the development of SMEs:

  • Contributing to the rise and awareness of new opportunities.
  • Fostering the creation and development of high value-added SMEs.
  • Providing assistance for the integration of the Hautes-Alpes’ SMEs within regional and national world-class business and innovation networks.
  • Help SMEs take profit of the members’ expertise in innovation, R&D, business management, access to sustainable growth and financing means. 

HARP: a network of high added-value actors


  • The Hautes-Alpes’ economic actors involved in supporting the development of existing business and the creation or relocation of new businesses.
  • Entrepreneurs originating from the Hautes-Alpes who live and work in other territories and wish to contribute to the development of their native homeland.
  • All people who simply love the quality of life in this territory and wish to contribute to its well-balanced development.

HARP: Keeping tuned in and active


HARP, with the assistance of HAD’s partners (trade associations, prefecture, General Council, Regional Council, localities, business organizations, the Press):

  • Offers access to an economic newsletter and a collaborative platform that facilitate the exchange of information and contacts between all actors of the network.
  • Gives its members access to major events of the economic life in the Hautes-Alpes, e.g. the OCOVA forum gathering 200 attendees from the industry, academic research laboratories, and economic actors (www.ocova.com).
  • Facilitates contacts between members.