Science at UM [S04-ep12]: Coo-Innov: innovation strategies of French companies
This week on A l’UM la science, Camille Bildstein and Frédéric Leroy from the Coo-innov Chair, talk to us about the innovation strategies of French companies. Our last-minute guest, Thomas Pichery, will talk to us about the Libé tour climate. The program is broadcast every Wednesday on Divergence FM 93.9.
In 2020, as the pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill, two pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer in the US and BioNTech in Germany, pooled their scientific expertise, know-how, and financial resources to work on a vaccine. The rest of the success story is well known, as the vast majority of us have received at least two doses of their vaccine in our arms.
2020 is also the year chosen to create the Coo-Innov Chair for Coopetition and Innovation Ecosystems at the University of Montpellier. Its goal? To promote exchanges, dissemination, and knowledge creation among researchers, managers, and students on collaboration and competition in 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 already welcomed the Coo-Innov Chair to discuss green innovation, competitiveness clusters, and coopetition. We are welcoming them back again this year for the release of a new report, this time aimed at quantifying the innovation strategies of French companies. To track the evolution of innovation in France, this report proposes four areas of focus:
- the importance of innovation in French companies' strategies;
- 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 Montpellier Business School, and Camille Bildstein, development manager at the Coo-Innov chair.
To go further:
- read the Coo-Innov Obs 2024 report;
- Listen to the programs At UM, science: Coopetition or competition for green innovation? and From collaborative innovation to Euromov's flying carpet.
Our last-minute guest, Thomas Pichery, head of scientific culture communications at the University of Montpellier, talks to us about the Climat Libé Tour, which will be stopping off in Montpellier on December 13 and 14, 2024, for its eighth and final stage.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Production: Alice Rollet
Listen to the program “A l’UM la science” on Divergence FM 93.9
