French Initiatives in ICT RD

摘要

In addition to the actions taken at the level of European Union inside the 5th framework program, or inside the Eureka project, a number of initiatives have been launched in France concerning selected key technologies. These initiatives intend to improve relationships and synergies inside R&D community (academic and industrial), better focus and make consistent the different actions engaged by the Public Administration as well as the different research actors in a number of domains considered as strategic for the future of the country like Information and Communication Technologies. The notion of National Research Network is structuring these new types of actions. After having described this concept, we detail successively the formerly created Telecommunication National Research Network and the new Software Technologies Network.