FRANCE PRESENTS 34 SECTORAL PLANS FOR ITS INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY

France has 34  sectoral plans for its industrial recovery. The objective is to build a new and competitive industrial offering that is capable to regain lost market shares and to win new ones. It should be pointed that industry represented in 2011 but only 19% of the total French GDP behind Czech Republic (36%), Poland (32%), Bulgaria (31%), Hungary (31%), Austria (29%), Finland (29%), Estonia (29%), Croatia (26%) Germany (28%), Lithuania (28%), Spain (26%), Sweden (26%), Italy (25%), Netherlands (24%), Denmark (22%),UK (22%), Belgium (22%), Latvia (22%).   

French Priorities are the following

1. To be positioned on a growing market or a market offering strong growth potential
2. To utilize technologies where France possesses competence
3. To occupy a strong position with leading companies or to use an ecosystem that offers a strong rank.

The French Shopping List

1. Energy Transition: Thermal renovation of buildings, Renewable Energies, Intelligent Electric Networks, Water Quality and Management of Rarity, Wood Industries, Recycling and Green Materials, Green Chemistry and Biofuels
2. Health and Living Economy: Medical Biotechnologies, Technical and Innovating Textiles, Digital Hospital, Medical Devices and New Health Equipments, Intelligent Products for safe, heathly and sustainable food supply.
3. Digital: Nanoelectrical, Software and In-Vehicles Systems,  Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing, Services without Contract, e-Education, Super Calculators, Big Data, Connected Objects, Robotics, Cybersecurity, Satellites by Electrical Propulsion, Telecom Sovereignty, Factory of the Future
4. Transport: Airships for Heavy Loads, Car for All 2 Liters/100 km, Electric Recharging Stations, Automatic Pilot Vehicles, TGV of the Future, Electrical Airplane et New Generation of Aircraft, Autonomy and Power of Batteries, Ecological Ships.

Industrial policy is the coordinated government action aimed at directing production resources to domestic producers in certain industries to help them become more competitive. This can be defined as a sectoral approach, aimed at developing and protecting national champions and domestic manufacturing to stabilise employment and reduce the technological gap with foreign competitors. The main role of industrial policy for France  should  be to provide the right framework conditions for enterprise development and innovation in order to make France an attractive place for industrial investment and job creation.  Industrial policy should be the set of government actions affecting French companies and their ability to compete both domestically and abroad. It takes more than a ‘shopping list’ to articulate a coherent industrial policy.