This is the first of a series of conferences for French Executives in the the attempt to open their eyes and their minds in the search for an answer to the future following the dictum "if you can\'t beat them....join them and swim with the sharks"

1. "A laser, is a solution seeking a problem.”1964 quote from a NYTimes article onTheodore H. Maiman the man who built the first operational laser

2. OvertureAllegro moderato

3. How much does it cost ?

4. Who benefits ?

5. Who pays ?

6. When can you deliver it?

7. What are we talking about ?

8. Symphony of I-N-N-O-V-A-T-IO-N

9. First Movement Andantino

10. Innovation never disappearsbecausecuriosity neverdies

11. Culture & Education

12. Culture fosters curiosityEducation structures & channels curiosity

13. When culture is latent and education is monopolized in its access and crystallized by a caste Nomenklaturacuriosity wanes awayThe only innovation is marked by the cooptation of classes of Apparaticks & their self-reproduction as part of the Nomenklatura

14. Latent culture +Nomenklatura oriented education =stifling curiosity =Zero or little innovation

15. Intermezzo

16. Second MovementAndante con brio

17. Absolute need for Curiosity & Empirics

18. Absolute need, through empirics, of curiositysurfaces where there is a starving hunger for ideas and economic improvement of self, where the undetected of today and the unexpected of tomorrow are motors of venture and adventure that will create wealth and in the process defy Nomeklatura and challenge the Apparatick

19. Where the dream becomes reality is where there is a fertile environment

20. Intermezzo

21. Third MovementFuga

22. Venture Capital &Management of Riskhuman, environmental &financialthe sense & appreciation of risk based on needs and desires

23. Human Capitalthe “hungry” of the world that are structured in their claim of sharing the richness as spelled out by Adam Smith & Marx & Keynes, the prophets of HOPE

24. EnvironmentalWhere Academia and Industry work hand-in-hand un-afraid of the vulgarity of the word profit and un-tamed in their desire and want to advance Science & Technology for the well being of themselves, their organizations, their scholarly institutions

25. FinancialWhere Capital flowsWhere risk is assessed on the basis of three simple questionsHow much will it cost?Who will benefit?When can you deliver it?

26. Intermezzo

27. Fourth Movementcon Fuoco

28. Unlocking Innovation

29. UnabatedAmbitiousSolitaryRelentlessPursue of a Dream coupled with

30. RemorslessRuthlessS-E-L-F-I-S-H-N-E-S-S(as in sense of self )& L-U-C-K(sense of self-predestination)

31. Keeping in mind thatthose who D-A-R-EWIN

32. “Les grosses boitesfinissent par produired’abord de la lahierarchie”quote from the article Bâtisseur de rêves – a portrait of Elon MuskLe Monde , Mardi 30 Mars 2010

33. SELF-REPRODUCTION OF NOMENKLATURA= COOPTATION OF APPARATICK= BLOOD RELATION S=MENTAL DEFICIT OF IMAGINATION= END OF DREAM = NO INNOVATION