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01:40Innovation must go on the field. Innovation must equip our forces.
01:44To achieve this mission, the Defense Innovation Agency drives the support mechanism, which could be relationship, grants, contracts, or even
01:54private equity.
01:55How does the agency foster innovation within the defense sector and facilitate collaboration between the stakeholders, academia, and the industry?
02:04Can you give a few examples?
02:05Yeah. In fact, the Defense Innovation Agency is a project factory. We conduct four types of projects.
02:14Resource projects with academics. The idea is to help the emergence of disruptive technology.
02:19Participative innovation project with the idea to encourage innovation within the ministry.
02:27We have also the technology defense project in order to prepare, to mature the technology we need for our future
02:33armament programs.
02:34And the last category is what we call innovation acceleration project.
02:38It's a way to work with the civilian ecosystem.
02:43And I'd like to focus on this last category of projects, open innovation.
02:47How to detect these companies coming from the civilian world.
02:51How to take benefits of these opportunities.
02:54We put in fact in place two cycle methods.
02:59The first cycle is what we call the observatory or watchfulness cycle.
03:04We encountered entities from the ministry in order to identify the priority, identify the sectors where they are looking for
03:12solutions, for ideas.
03:13Then we look for actors in these sectors.
03:16We produce information, we share information with our entities, and if our needs meet the potential solution, we jump to
03:26the second cycle, which is in fact the project cycle.
03:30Through these methods, we encountered more than 300 startups a year, and we launched dozens of projects.
03:39In addition to these methods, we put in place a one-stop shelf.
03:47The idea is to be accessible, to not miss an important idea, a good idea.
03:53And finally, I would like also to emphasize to say that we are not working alone.
03:59We cannot work alone.
04:01We rely on a network of actors.
04:03We call that the defense innovation actors.
04:05It is composed by an industrial association, JICA, JICAN, JIFAS, Comité Richelieu, competitiveness clusters, forces labs, test centers from the
04:18DGA, and also academics.
04:20It's a key point.
04:21It's really a key point to disseminate information and to capture projects.
04:25Patrick O'Four, thank you so much.
04:27We're out of time.
04:28We'll check in with you throughout the event.
04:30Thank you so much.
04:31Thank you very much.
04:32All right.
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