Innovation policy reveals a lack of collective vision. Experts are at a loss to understand the transformations underway. All this requires them to return to the microeconomic mechanisms of these transformations, the consequences of a single fact: the mutation of the economy itself.

While the commercial and judicial domination of the dollar has made the world a monetary continent as compact as Pangaea, this continent could be shattered, as if by plate tectonics, into three pieces, each dominated by a major currency: the crypto dollar, the crypto euro and the crypto yuan.

New expectations of the enterprise have refocused thinking on its role in society. The "Society Contract" Commission, led by Antoine Frérot, CEO of Veolia, examined the relevance and timeliness of changing the definition of the company and its governance.

As in 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was built, France can bounce back brilliantly by banking on innovation and surfing on the entrepreneurial passion of the French. Despite accumulated technological delays, new uses are an inexhaustible economic engine.

The modern economy developed from the end of the 18th century onwards, based on the synergy of mechanics and chemistry, to which was added, towards the end of the 19th century, the use of oil and electricity. In the 1970s, it gave way to the digital economy.