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28 October 2020
Industry of the Future: The Ramp-up in Technological Competencies of SMEs. The Case of Industrial Companies
The report of the National Academy of Technologies of France on the industry of the future, as well as a number of economic studies, show that large French industrial companies are progressing well, and that on the whole the major industrial customers and their first-level suppliers have had positive operating results. ISEs, of which there are still not enough, and most SMEs, which have been able to adapt their strategic positioning and upgrade their industrial facilities, are performing well. However, a considerable number of SMEs and VSEs (or MICs) are not in this enviable position and this subject is at […]
20 January 2020
Attractiveness of the professions, attractiveness of the territories and challenges for industry
The contribution that the various uses of technology can make to the attractiveness of jobs, companies, training and regions. Technologies, particularly the digital technologies, but also technologies that contribute to the ecological transition and the fight against global warming help to improve the attractiveness of the industry’s trades/professions and territories. The digital technologies reduce the handicaps of small and medium-sized towns and rural territories by reducing distances; they facilitate access to health services, they enable the development of knowledge and skills everywhere, and they contribute to the competitiveness of industrial companies, wherever they are located18. In the medium term, they […]
06 July 2018
Technology and soft power: the case of the fashion and luxury industry
How can technological changes best benefit the fashion and luxury sector, allow the emergence and diffusion of new skills and amplify France’s Soft Power in the world? Scenarios and recommendations of the National Academy of Technologies of France. Fashion and luxury, like all sectors of industry and the economy in general, are affected by the digital revolution and the technologies related to the industry of the future. The new functionalities that they engender intersect and interact with traditional technologies. The continuous and subtle interplay between reason and emotion, inherent in fashion and luxury, is taking new paths, just as the […]
08 January 2017
Technologies and innovation territories
Where is the economic dynamism, where is wealth created, what are the drivers of innovation? Where are we today in terms of territorial dynamics and innovation dynamics? The National Academy of Technologies of France devoted its 2017 annual seminar (11 and 12 October) to studying this vital subject for France. This seminar shows that at a time when France has experienced both a territorial reform (NOTRe law of 2015) and a metropolitan development of (MAPTAM law of 2014), and multiple initiatives aimed at developing its potential for competitiveness and innovation, the challenges of innovation in the territories are still fundamental. […]
28 June 2016
How we perceive risk factors
In their new Academic Report, the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) – recalling that their motto is ‘Sharing reasoned, chosen Progress – analyses the question of how we perceive risks that accompany any form of innovation. The Report acknowledges the controversies that surround certain applications of science and certain technological innovations and raises the implicit political issue of the ‘city’s project’ and its objectives: what do we wish to do collectively with new knowledge and powers conferred by science and technology? Embedded in the controversies that certain applications of science and certain technological innovations raise, progress per se […]
23 June 2015
How technology is (and could be better) appropriated?
Academic report adopted by vote at the NATF Plenary session May 13, 2015 Understanding how innovative products (or services) emerge, identifying the factors that encourage or hold back their appropriation by Society, analysing the questions in terms of wide ranging changes induced by use of technologies and the conditions and constrained needed for a dialogue with Society, constitute the central guide-line of this Academic Report (adopted by vote at the June 2015, NATF Plenary session) Technologies & Innovation Technologies have been defined as the “the design, production and use by Men of material or immaterial (for example software) original objects […]
08 April 2015
Military robotics and consciousness
Military robots exist and are more and more used, on various operation theatres and in the different media: air (drones), sea, ground and even, maybe soon, space. Their market is strongly expanding. Used for observation, reconnaissance, demining and even firing (e.g. armed drones), they offer the advantage of positioning the servant away from the battlefield, thus reducing the friendly losses, and to be usually recoverable. Furthermore, cost reduction of equipment can be expected owing to the fact that the constraints linked to human presence on board are suppressed. Drones allow permanence on site that a piloted aircraft could not provide. […]
01 March 2014
Large Socio-Technical Systems. EDP Sciences, 2014
Large scale Socio-Technical Systems (LSTSs) operating over networks (such as the electricity system , the railways , the airspace system , Internet…) have radically changed our daily lives over the past few decades and also transformed the way our Societies work . They represent a phenomenon that is conducive to enthusiasm , which contributes to the democratization process of societies everywhere, offering new features and services over the coming years , consequences and sources of new techniques and technologies : in this light , LSTSs appeared as a natural field for investigation by our Academy . They have undergone considerable […]
04 July 2012
Academic advice note issued by the National Academy of Technologies of France (NATF) Research-Innovation-Technology policies in French regions
Research-innovation-technology policies in French Regions Academic Advice Note issued by the National Academy of technologies of France (NATF) Voted by the Academy in plenary session, July 4, 2012 Increased awareness by politicians of the role played by research, seen as one of the key factors in favour of innovation, has encouraged them to initiate a series of measures in this area, in particular at the level of France’s Regions. An in-depth analysis of the budget commitments for research activities by the Regional authorities are on a par today – viz., same order of magnitude – with national financing of research […]
26 March 2010
SMEs, Technologies and Development
SMEs, Technologies and Development An Academic Communication to NATF, by Christian MARBACH, former GM of SOFFINOVA PARTNERS and ANVAR How can we assist SMEs to take technological evolution into their stride, naturally with all the relevant consequences and even encourage them to play an important role in designing and developing major innovations? This Academic Communication to the Academy sets out certain answers to these questions. After an overview of the SME scene in France, diverse and important to the economy, the report touches on the innumerable possibilities to engage a dialogue with the SMEs, all the more so that these […]
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