Sustaining the transformation
Create and deploy a proprietary research and development business

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...