France's high-tech almost absent from the world ranking of innovation

In the 2013 Global 100 most innovative companies by Thomson Reuters, 12 French groups are present only with Alcatel-Lucent to represent the new technologies.

The 2013 edition of the world ranking of the most innovative companies conducted by Thomson Reuters, France is a good place with groups classified 12 of the 100.

Of these, nine are companies (Alcatel-Lucent, Arkema, L'Oreal, Michelin, Safran, Saint-Gobain, Thales, EADS and Valeo) and three organizations (CNRS, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA ) and IFP). Usually classified, Renault no longer part of this selection.

With these twelve, France ranks third in behind the United States (45 groups) and Japan 28 groups. If this result can satisfy economists, observers of new technologies go hungry.

Apart from Alcatel-Lucent, no French company ICT is this face Apple, Google, AT & T, BlackBerry, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, NTT, Oracle, Samsung, Sharp, Sony or Xerox. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent is not in his best form and to survive, is preparing for the largest share in terms of its history.

Difficult to find a European IT Champion

This raises questions as to the Thomson Reuters ranking is based on the volume of patents, patents accepted rate compared to the volume deposited, the geographic scope of patents and their reputation. And in this field, we find no major French groups such as Dassault Systèmes, Bull, Cap Gemini, Atos or Technicolor.

In fact, the most dynamic sectors in terms of innovation as telecommunications. This is definitely a positive point of the patent war that lead to the high-tech giants such as Apple, Samsung, Google, BlackBerry and Microsoft / Nokia.

European giant web will he French, as hope Fleur Pellerin, Minister for the Digital Economy, and Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Productive Recovery? This is doubtful to play this ranking.

Even in Europe (excluding Switzerland), the champion will be difficult to find. With France, Thomson Reuters retains only Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. And in these three countries, new technologies are broadly represented by two Germans (Infineon and Siemens), a Dutch (Philips), a Swedish (Ericsson).