Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics): Reflections on innovation policy

Antoine Chapsal: Allow me to interrupt your discussions for a moment to thank you once again for coming in such large numbers this evening. I would like to thank the Minister in particular for accepting our invitation and for placing the debate preceding this dinner in a somewhat broader, and also more political, context. I would like to thank the President of the Competition Authority and the Advocate General once again. Dear Jean, I happen to be the one who has the perilous task of presenting your immense career and your colossal work in five minutes. I have certainly been accustomed, in the fifteen years that I have been doing this job, to tight deadlines, but even the Nobel Committee, when it awarded you its prize in 2014, stressed how "difficult it was to do justice in a few