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Carnot 3.0: ensure long-lasting research partnership
Geneviève Fioraso received the report issued by the “Carnot 3.0” Commission. This report is geared around three main actions: giving a long-term perspective to the Carnot Institutes, with no time limit; implementing a “Carnot label” with enhanced quality criteria; and making the governances of each institute aware of their responsibilities.
The “Carnot 3.0” Commission is in charge of “boosting the Carnot Institutes so that they take an active part in France’s recovery”. On Wednesday 21 January, 2015, France’s Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research Geneviève Fioraso was presented with the Commission’s recommendations by Jean-Luc Belingard (President of the “Carnot 3.0” mission and President of the Carnot Committee) and Laurent Malier (spokesman).
Geneviève Fioraso took the opportunity to point out that “in a world of open exchanges and knowledge, accelerating industrial and technological changes, changing innovation processes and “Open Innovation”, it is essential to encourage all companies of all sizes to make the shift from laboratory inventions to innovation. The Carnot Institutes are the real spearheads of research partnership in France and of transfer between companies, especially for small and medium companies and industries”.
Three recommendations
The Carnot system was created in 2006. Today, it relies on a network of 34 institutes stemming from various public research components. In less than ten years, the Carnot Institutes have reached the level of the Fraunhofer Institutes, their German counterparts, well known for their contribution to the German industry. The Carnot Institutes now account for 15% of the public research workforce (20,000 researchers and technicians, as well as 7,500 doctorate students) with a consolidated budget of 2,2 billion euros; more than 50% of the research contracts entered into by companies and public laboratories for an overall amount of 455 million euros (compared with 462 million euros for the Fraunhofer institutes); 7,500 contracts per year signed with more than 2,000 companies, among which 900 small and medium companies and industries; and more than 60 companies created per year.
The Secretary of State selected three main recommendations in the report:
- give the Carnot Institutes a long-term perspective, with no time limit;
- implement a “Carnot label”, with quality criteria: professionalism, reactivity, means dedicated to research partnership (for instance: guarantee a maximum lead time of one month to complete contractual negotiations with companies);
- make the governances of each Carnot Institute aware of their responsibilities, as they will decide on the use of the funds and the implementation of defined strategies.
“By my decision, as a first step, to make the Carnot label a durable component of France’s research policy, my aim is to put the Carnot Institutes back in the broader perspective of the development of research partnership in our country, declared Geneviève Fioraso. This is the condition for restoring the competitiveness of economy through quality. This will also be a source of funding for laboratories, a source of career prospects for junior researchers and a way to make our research attractive for young generations. Our country’s objective must be to invest 20% of its annual public and private R&D expenditure in research partnership by the next 10 years, as most of the OECD and emerging countries already do.”
The report issued by the “Carnot 3.0” Commission can be consulted on the website of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
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