6. Why quality in research

6.1 Scientific issues

In today's research environment, it is essential to master all the means of acquiring, preserving and disseminating results. Competition is fierce in the scientific field, and to meet it you need to be highly responsive. The quality approach, through its concept of continuous improvement and its tools, enables us to meet these needs.

Documentary mastery facilitates the capitalization of scientific and technical work undertaken in a much more exhaustive way than scientific publication. Indeed, publication in scientific journals represents the culmination and valorization of scientific work. We generally only consider the positive part of the work, the part that has worked, omitting all the intellectual pathways (false leads, varied ideas,...