Toward a new model of innovation

 In the traditional model, industrial partnership plays a role “after academic innovation,” in order to translate individual discoveries into applications aimed at specific markets. In the model proposed by the Foundation, the upstream combination of industrial know‑how and the knowledge born of academic research constitutes a “partnership for discovery” that encourages the transformation of discoveries into breakthrough innovations.

In its global vision of a public-private partnership, the Foundation cultivates the conditions that are favorable to innovation, in the form of “development partnerships.”