Brial Forestier

Business Development and Cooperation Analyst in the French embassy in Beijing I had the mission of detecting opportunities of using research collaboration to facilitate the economical exchanges between Chinese and French high-tech companies.

After having worked as marketing engineer in charge of technology transfer for the French CEA, I was ask to start an equivalent activity in China. The CEA being a public research institution with a mission to help the industry, I was placed in the French embassy in China and given the objective to define how to best approach China.

As a result, a number of high-level executives from France came for exploratory missions to China and at least 3 very promissing technological collaboration were started.

Sector: Foreign Affairs - International Affairs

As Marketing engineer in charge of optic based technologies for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), I had to evaluate the potential of break-through innovations to succed on the market.

The CEA is a major public research institution in France which dedicates to applied research for industry. Therefore it has a technology transfer division in charge of helping researchers at early stage for target roadmap definition or at licensing stage for better valorization and client targetting.
This is done so by implicating industrials partners into surveys, workgroups and all type of consultation technics.

In one year as a marketing engineer I have had the chance of interviewing more than 150 industry and research experts and most of the strategic suggestions my colleagues and I made are today implemented with good return on investment.

Sector: High Tech