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Report : competitive technologies for sustainable development

Report : competitive technologies for sustainable development

28/08/12

Vincent Chriqui released Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, with Jean Bergougnoux, the report of the Centre d'analyse stratégique

Competitive technologies at the service of sustainable development

By letter dated 27 April 2011, the Director General of the Centre for Strategic Analysis, Vincent Chriqui, confided to Jean Bergougnoux, honorary president of the SNCF, Honorary General Director of EDF, the task of animating a reflection Prospective Technological Studies of the sectors of energy, transport and construction.

This synthesis report, prepared with the assistance of rapporteurs Centre for Strategic Analysis, attempts to summarize and put into perspective all the work which show these specific reports. Admittedly some very complex issues still need supplements. It may therefore be useful to extend this work in a number of areas.


Beyond its role in the competitiveness of a country, technological innovation is essential to provide appropriate responses to the challenges of our commitment to sustainable development in terms of economic growth, preservation of the environmental and social progress.

Mission for Prospective Technological conducted by the Centre for Strategic Analysis has sought to clarify this dual problem by proposing a long-term vision for the energy, transport and construction. For each technology studied, it has attempted to assess both the possible contribution to sustainable development and the competitive potential of our country on the international scene.

His work, chaired by Jean Bergougnoux have reviewed the technological advances that may occur in the coming decades in the sectors concerned. They examined the conditions for integration of these advances in systems and subsystems existing (or create) and the conditions of a mature technical, economic but also social. Wherever possible, two time horizons were identified: a medium-term horizon, 2030, for which we have a fairly clear vision of future developments and long-term horizon, 2050, which allows to consider jumps Scientists are still uncertain. Finally, the mission is interested in four transverse technologies involved consistently in the three study areas, which are likely to produce decisive progress (metrology, nanotechnology, regulation and control command, the home network ).

One of the lessons of the exercise is that technology foresight in France remains very crumbled, making it difficult both a systemic approach and yet essential, regarding the proper use of this scarce resource are public funds, prioritization on solid foundations. In each discipline in each sector, researchers, manufacturers have their own vision of the future, may be too optimistic for the first, but these visions fit poorly in a coherent framework to assess the real value of innovations possible.

Set around a table specialists in different areas as we have done is both complex and constructive, but this exercise requires a prior rigorous methodological work to deepen and renew periodically knowledge.

A practical difficulty in conducting a prospective overall is the lack of validated databases and shared the cost and performance of technologies. This applies both to the current state of various technologies for information - at least the orders of magnitude - about innovations in development or testing. These data exist or may exist, if the request was unclear, but they are scattered in many organizations and assume a coherence sufficient to serve as a basis for a prospective approach.

The four proposals in the report:

    Proposal No. 1: take into account the definition of mechanisms to support the development of technology, technical and economic maturity, their ability to integrate into existing systems and global positioning research and Industry French.
    
Proposal No. 2: In the area of ​​electricity generation, encourage the deployment of renewable energy and competitive focus for those whose cost of electricity production would be above a threshold to be determined, and demonstration operations research.
    
Proposal No. 3: Given the price differences between the ground and photovoltaic roof, extend the concept of positive energy building a broader, island or district, to benefit local energy lower cost.
    
Proposal No. 4: Investing in the transverse technologies: control devices and systems management (and control) and in particular the building (home network) nanotechnology; measurement techniques (metrology), the iCT; materials .

Chair : Jean Bergougnoux
General Rapporteur: Gaëlle Hossie
Speakers: Stephen Beeker, Johanne Buba, Julien Delanoë, Geraldine Ducos, Stephen Hilt, Aude-Rigard Cerison, Aude scutching
Coordinator: Dominique Auverlot
Assistant: Elise Martinez
With the support of CGEIET: Fabrice Dambrine, Françoise Roure
(C) Centre d'analyse stratégique - August 2012

Keywords: technology, energy, transport, building, R & D, industry, greenhouse gas emissions.

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