The Housing Ministry follows closely the subjectExports of wines excluding Champagne grew by 12It must also embark on the Internet on the TVThe Spanish group which already holds 29Then nothing does requires us to stay marriedThe first solution is to do nothing and let their currency appreciateDublin has left banks do anything EnglishWith a constant a message custom and polishedBranches need to have a broader radar visionThere was also an obvious error of timingIt is a portfolio that weighs heavy. And that, as all well populated portfolios, is worth its weight in gold. More than 3,700 active patents, is not nothing. This is even CNRS the first public body in terms of search results that could be valued economically. Who entrusted this treasure of war The answer comes of itself: a man who has perfect knowledge both of the research community as mysteries of the creation of innovative enterprises, not to mention the complex institutional ecosystem (OSEO, competitiveness clusters, companies to accelerate technology transfer...) implemented by the public authorities these last five years.
But should he find the rare bird. Alain Fuchs and Joël Bertrand, respectively President of CNRS and Director General Science, found him in the person of Pierre Gohar far in position at the University of technology of Compiègne (UTC), where he officiated since March 2008 as Director of development and partnerships. Enhancement, this doctor of chemical engineering of fifty-two years, new Director of innovation and relations with companies of the CNRS, a is the common thread of his career since his debut, or almost. And, in true scientist, it has experienced it in all its forms, as donor funds and the beneficiary, at all levels of research and development, from upstream to downstream.
Taste of risk
The Commissioner of Atomic Energy (CEA), which he joined in 1986 after the defense of his thesis at the Ecole des mines de Saint-Etienne, long was her home port. After five years of research, he left the first to become responsible for Affairs of Anvar (future OSEO) in Poitiers, where the native of Tangiers had completed, a few years earlier, his university studies. Back to the ECA in 1991, he in escapes again four years later into the bath of entrepreneurship.
New Option Wood, he founded without anything knowing then the business world, operates a thermal process of transformation of the wood, the cross-linking, which makes it both more resistant to biodegradation and less sensitive to temperature variations, two critical weaknesses in the construction industry. The experience will be a success, even if its founder and CEO is, after three years, led to leave the company and sell its shares (30), following a strategic divergence with its Board of Directors. After a brief stint in Pinault wood and materials, he returned in 1999, of course, the ECA as an Assistant to the Director of development.
These trips, sometimes happy, sometimes less, should not surprise us on the part of a man-father of two children aged nineteen and twenty-one - which professes that what most cruelly makes default in our educational system, it is the taste of risk. He was also quick to make itself a more exiting a third time the ECA, in 2000, to build an incubator in Poitou-Charentes, that he will drive for eight years. Advantage of nothing, but strong support from local elected officials from all sides, the RCPI, renamed from Etincel, set foot in the Stirrup to number of entrepreneurs in the region, with its lot of successes (the rochelaise Génindexe company) but also of failures. "Failed": a word that Pierre Gohar is not afraid to use. "It is a factor of experience among others, probably the most useful," he proclaims.
