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4Conclusion

We rely on technical progress to help us overcome the problems we encounter and know to be real – practices and attitudes from which we have not yet emerged.

(Leroux 2011)

Doesn’t risk ultimately appear to be the impoverished and reductive way in which the Man of technoscientific societies, who can no longer make sense of his misfortune, accounts for what happens to him.

(Dupuy 2002)

If our cells are free, their organization must obey the principles of economy or ecology that structure societies or ecosystems. In an ecosystem such as the forest as a whole, there are general regulatory phenomena that control temperature or soil composition. However, there is no such thing as a forest genome that, by programming each of its inhabitants, ensures the realization of global phenomena. Homeostasis – the constancy of the forest’s internal environment – is not written down anywhere. There is no nature police.

(Sonigo 2000)

The management of research, the project-based approach, assessment of interdisciplinary projects, the position of academic research in relation to the business world, the ability to accept responsibility and ethics are some of the questions raised in this book, along with the somewhat hazardous and difficult link between idea and innovation; this is a key element in the development of promising emerging technologies. To conclude this reflection on creativity, invention and innovation, from someone with an academic background, the author has “amused” ...