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• Competitive technologies at the service of sustainable development

But public funding is increasingly scarce, it is no longer possible today to support, through grants perennial, the massive deployment of technology uncompetitive. Public investment, when necessary, must be adapted to the state of technology: R & D efforts in areas that require a technological breakthrough, achieving demonstrators when the technical and economic feasibility remains to be demonstrated, and support only when a massive deployment technology is mature and competitive.

In the latter case, beyond their Keynesian effects, investments will have no lasting positive impact on our economy to the extent that they have allowed the establishment in the territory of an industrial competitiveness and export . Undeniably, France still has strengths in many areas: he belongs by his choice to promote relevant technical and otherwise, rely on technological breakthroughs to develop its industry on market segments where it is not present today. A new technology can however be developed to the extent that it does not arouse suspicion reaction of the population to the state therefore create procedures for information and consultation necessary for the implementation of the process supervision of new technologies gathering the support of our citizens.

Summary

• Satisfy a growing demand for energy, economic and safe manner while reducing its environmental impact
• Produce electricity and heat while emitting less greenhouse gas emissions
• More sustainable transport, local pollution source and highly dependent on oil
• The residential-tertiary reduce heating needs while controlling those specific electricity, strongly increasing

• Authors: Jean Bergougnoux, consultant, president of the Technology Foresight mission, and Dominique Auverlot Gaëlle Hossie, Sustainable Development Department .

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