To increase for the academic improvement of the District, as measured by the following indicators:
To increase. INRIA’S ECONOMIC IMPACT With an elite scientific base, the Institute has always felt that there were many ways of measur- ing the impact of research, ranging from scientific outreach to the men and women who pass through the Institute on their way to joining other organisations. Economic impact is also increasingly common, taking various different forms: the dissemination of open source software providing technological infrastructure to innovative companies, for ex- ample, or involvement in standardisation activities. Such an economic impact will be essential in order to contribute to the revitalisation and sus- tainability of France and Europe’s industrial base in the digital sector. This objective will enable Inria to pursue its strategy geared towards the creation of tech start-ups. Owing to the long-term nature of a tech start-up, the lifespan of which will often exceed that of a project team, this will be a long-term policy. It will also help avoid the trap of service provision, which is not one of Inria’s purposes: the Institute has no vocation to become an incremental research institute and even less to become a purveyor of services that the private sector could provide.
