The “France 2030” investment plan that Emmanuel Macron is due to announce on October 12 will aim in particular to
“reconcile”
the France of start-ups and industrial France, said the President of the Republic on Thursday, rejecting the opposition between of them.
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"The French reindustrialisation will also pass, and perhaps especially in certain fields, by the start-ups"
, declared Emmanuel Macron, who spoke at the annual forum Bpifrance Inno Génération (BIG), organized in Paris.
"If we want to build the France of 2030, we must win back the industrial part, we must re-innovate in and through industry and therefore decide to increase funding for industrial start-ups"
, insisted Emmanuel Macron, estimating
" false ”
to oppose industry and start-ups.
For this, the “France 2030” plan, the amount of which will be around 30 to 50 billion euros over 8 to 10 years, according to government sources, will allow companies to finance and develop their projects in France. industrial demonstrators, and not abroad, for lack of investors.
Several hundred demonstrators in 2030
Demonstrators are facilities that allow innovative companies to test their production processes, an essential step before building a production plant on a commercial scale.
"If a start-up makes its demonstrator in another country, it will often then develop the industrialization of its process elsewhere, and this is a loss of opportunity for France"
, a loss of employment and innovation , according to Emmanuel Macron.
The government's objective is that by 2030,
"several hundred"
demonstrators per year can be developed in France.
“We will respond to that with the“ France 2030 ”strategy to allow this new phase to begin and reconcile this France of start-ups and this France of industry,”
insisted the Head of State.