5. Sustaining the transformation

Your initial results will feed into your internal and external communication channels, which are irreversibility factors and key tools for supporting your transformation. To ensure your long-term viability, you will develop your business – its organization, its processes, its ambition – by building on the specific points of balance identified during the start-up phase. Your scientific output will provide you with a bargaining chip and a guarantee of credibility, enabling you to take part in a partnership approach outside the company's walls. This ability to participate in or create a collaborative research dynamic with academic and industrial partners will open up the following possibilities in particular:

• access additional sources of funding, via the various funding bodies and procedures for project-based research (see Getting help for innovation...