I will respond to you in French, since I failed to keep my promise last time.
When I arrived at this organization about eight years ago, they had already started this transformation. It’s about returning to innovation rather than focusing on invention. Instead of dreaming about what could be, we need to think about what we can do in the short term, over a period of one year, two years or three years. It’s not the time to dream or promote something new, but rather to promote what helps the industry.
What’s most difficult in innovation is not being in a lab to do math and experiments. We can do that, it’s easy. What’s difficult is bringing people from the industry together at the same table to work together to solve the problem. Something needs to force this connection, regardless of the reason or approach chosen, so industry people sit down with us to explore the possibilities.
Should we show them a catalogue of options to ask which ones they want to explore?
Should they have recognized industrial participation in all programs?
What I always hear when I go looking for funding here and there, since it’s part of my job, is that an equivalent proportion of money must come from the industry, among other sources. However, in the current context, there’s none. We’ll leave it there.