1. Public-Private partnership in research French experience Meeting of High-Level Member States’ Experts on Public-Private Partnerchips in Research -11/11/05

2. French strategy R&D - Innovation Comply with Lisbon agenda: 3% GDP for R&D 2 major orientations: - public research efficency - need to promote private R&D

3. Recommandations of the report « Renewing industrial policy » JL Beffa Accelerating private investment in high technology research. Promote industrial investment in projects that contain significant technological risk. Coordination of private and public R&D

4. Financial support structures for R&D innovation in France National Agency for Research Industrial Innovation Agency OSEO Group FCE (Competitiveness clusters)

5. Complementarity of support structures for R&D innovation OSEO- ANVAR National Research Agency ( ANR) Industrial Innovation Agency (AII) Ministry of Industry: Enterprises Competitiveness Fund (FCE) Increasing implication of public laboratories RRIT Call for tenders To fondamental research Non cooperative research Public research Private /Public partnership Project size To innovation and market Competitiveness clusters

6. The Industrial Innovation Agency Identification, selection, lauching and evaluation of large industrial strategic projects Organization: Supervisory board + Directorate Human resources: 30 people Financial resources: 2 billion € (1,7 billion for 2005-2006)

7. Mobilizing Programmes of Industrial Innovation (MPII) MPII: - big projects up to more than 100 M€ - focus on future product possessing high component of technological innovation - existence of a market - medium-term Driving role of one industrialist leader or consortium Cooperative framework with SMEs and laboratories

8. Financial support to MPII Risk sharing: up to half of the sum of R&D expenditures, in form of subsidies or advances to be paid back in the event of succes. Comply with community framework on State aid for R&D - industrial research - pre-competitive developmental activity

9. Energy / Environment: renewable energy, economic building construction, non-polluting facotries … Transport: clean vehicules, safe intelligent automobiles, automation of air traffic control… Health: new therapies (cancer, degenerative diseases), non- invasive surgery, biophotonics… Information Technology: very high speed network, network security, new interfaces, micro-electro-mechanical systems… Strategic potential areas

10. European cooperation European-scale projects. Encourage intergovernmental framework for industrial cooperation around the MPII. Agency should be coordinated with the EUREKA initiative.