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France needs more mesures pour l'innovation, according to a new report:
France isn't the hotbed of innovation it would like to be, and one reason is that scientific research has traditionally been done by public servants, who rarely start a company to turn their discoveries into new products or services. A 1999 law that aimed to change that by stimulating entrepreneurship has not had the intended effects, according to a report released on Tuesday. The report recommends relaxing the rules for academics who want to embark on a commercial adventure, rewarding those who file patents, and giving entrepreneurial scientists more recognition.
Judged solely by the number of patent filings, France may seem quite an entrepreneurial country; it ranks sixth globally, according to the latest figures from the World Intellectual Property Organization. But public researchers are often loath to become entrepreneurs. The French government asked Jean-Luc Beylat, president of Nokia Bell Labs France in Paris, and Pierre Tambourin, general director of the biocluster Genopole in Evry, to review the so-called Allègre Law of 1999, which sought to make it easier for scientists to engage in entrepreneurship, as well as similar initiatives.
[...] The authors suggest further loosening the rules. Researchers should be allowed to spend up to 10 years on developing their spin-off and to work 50% of their time on consulting activities, instead of the current 20%, for instance. They should also be given 3 years to resell their share and be allowed to keep up to 20% of it. The Public Service Ethics Commission should play a smaller role, the authors say, and entrepreneurial activities should be a factor in the career advancement of publicly funded researchers.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @08:38AM
W said the French did not even have a word for "entrepreneur"! Except, of course, that "entrepreneur" is a word that English borrowed from French! But it has the highest ratings? And President Trump does not have syphilis, [woodenboat.com] because that is a French word, too! Oh, my god. The stupid! It burns! Especially when you pee! Except that is Gonnorhea, which does not cause insanity, so much, like that of King George III, or President George II (the Dubya!), or the present Loser in Chief. You know, you read stuff like this on a Wooden Boat Forum, it really has to be true! Otherwise, it wouldn't float! Seriously!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 18 2017, @03:50PM
When President Trump closes the EPA^WDEP I hope France takes in those scientists and turns them into entrepreneurs. They've been nothing but a drain on our economy.