Thierry Bruhat: he spent more than 20 years in supporting innovation projects and policies based on cooperation between companies, research, higher education and territories. Its work aimed to design and implement innovation and regional policies and related bodies (incubators, seed capital funds, innovation centers, technopoles...).
He helped structuring most of the French Technopoles, defined the pre-incubator policy of the 1999 Innovation Law and supported the implementation of the national competitiveness poles policy in 2006-2007. Since 2006, he has been entrusted to define regional innovation policies in Ile-de-France (Paris region), Languedoc-Roussillon, Alsace, Brittany, Aquitaine (ICT)… Thierry passed away in June 2021.