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"In France today, we still live with the idea - less and less justified and more and more arrogant - that our capacity for innovation, thanks to the excellence of our teachers, researchers and engineers, and the quality of our infrastructure, is far superior to that of the countries of the South and East. Remember how smugly we said at the time of the first oil crisis: "We don't have oil, but we have ideas Let's face it: we still don't have oil, but we're no longer alone in having ideas and the capacity to exploit them in the form of concrete applications for the benefit of economic and social development. That's what's new. It's a radical and irreversible change to which we'll have to adapt" (Marc Fontecave)