Innovation is no longer a sectoral subject and has become a structuring force of the economy, sovereignty and power. Over the past 20 years you only had to follow technology, startups and fundraising to understand where the world was going. Today this reading is now insufficient.
We are moving from a phase of transformation to a phase of deep reconfiguration in which innovation is no longer content with optimizing what already exists or creating new uses, but is redefining critical infrastructures, recomposing value chains, redistributing power to once again become a central lever of sovereignty.
If the innovation cycle naturally accelerates, she becomes more scientistmore capitalisticmore industrial. Innovation now mobilizes technologies from decades of research: advanced artificial intelligence, supercomputing, semiconductors, quantum, biotechnologies, robotics, energy.
This acceleration is not only technological, but is also systemic. It is reshaping global value chains, shifting centers of economic power, and once again becoming a strategic issue for States. The movements techtonic open a new era.
In this context, the issue is no longer to be informed, but to understand what really makes sense, and to take a look that goes beyond its immediate scope, in order to discern the underlying dynamics which lastingly recompose the economic, technological and political balances.