With the support of the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
The Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair, created in 2006, marks the joint determination of the Collège de France and the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller to highlight the importance of work devoted to technological innovation.
Innovation is characterized on the one hand by its interdisciplinary dimension, at the crossroads of mathematical and computer sciences, physics, chemistry and biology, and on the other by the ability of certain researchers to bring applicative dimensions to their work, and to create a dialogue between the academic and industrial worlds. It is this dual dimension that the Collège de France's Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt Chair has sought to recognize since 2006, by inviting each year an internationally-renowned researcher whose pioneering work has taken exemplary account of interdisciplinarity and the ability to work towards bridging the gap between public research and technological applications. The chairholder, appointed by the professors' assembly, is renewed each year to encourage teaching at the cutting edge of research in a highly diversified sector.
Through this Chair, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation is pursuing its priority objective of supporting scientific research of excellence in fields at the crossroads of fundamental research and innovation.
The Collège de France wishes to honor the memory of Mrs. Liliane Bettencourt, whose name the Chair bears, and who, through the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, a patron of the Collège de France, was instrumental in the creation and longevity of this Chair.
