UM atUM [S04-ep12]: Coo-Innov: Innovation Strategies of French Companies
This week on *AUM science*, Camille Bildstein and Frédéric Leroy, from the Coo-innov Chair, discuss innovation strategies at French companies. Our last-minute guest, Thomas Pichery, will join us to talk about the Libé Tour atmosphere. The show airs every Wednesday on Divergence FM 93.9.
In 2020, as the pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill, two pharmaceutical companies—the American firm Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech—pooled their scientific expertise, know-how, and financial resources to develop a vaccine. The rest of this success story is well known, since the vast majority of us have received at least two doses of their vaccine.
2020 was also the year chosen to establish the Coo-Innov Chair for Co-opetition and Innovation Ecosystems at the University of Montpellier. Its goal? To foster the exchange, dissemination, and creation of knowledge among researchers, managers, and students regarding collaboration and competition within innovation ecosystems. This chair draws on scientific expertise, as its co-founders, Frédéric Leroy and Anne-Sophie Fernandez, are both university professors at Montpellier Management and researchers in management sciences. It also draws on two observatories— the Innovation Observatory and the Alliances and Partnerships Observatory.
We have previously hosted the Coo-Innov Chair to discuss green innovation, competitiveness clusters, and coopetition. We are hosting them again this year to mark the release of a new report, which this time aims to quantify the innovation strategies of French companies. To track the evolution of innovation in France, this report proposes four key areas:
- the importance of innovation in the strategies of French companies;
- these companies' approach to innovation;
- the choice of their main partners;
- the challenges they face in innovating.
We discuss this with Frédéric Leroy, co-founder of the Coo-Innov Chair and professor at Montpellier Management and the Montpellier Business School, and Camille Bildstein, development officer at the Coo-Innov Chair.
For more information:
- Read the Coo-Innov Obs 2024 report;
- Listen to the episodes “AtUM : Science— Coopetition or Competition for Green Innovation? ” and “From Collaborative Innovation to Euromov’s Flying Carpet.”
Our last-minute guest, Thomas Pichery, communications officer for science outreach at the University of Montpellier, talks to us about the Climat Libé Tour, which will make its eighth and final stop in Montpellier on December 13 and 14, 2024.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Director: Alice Rollet
