TRAVID Project (Travail vivant d’innovation de défense)
For this project on defense innovation in action, coordinated by Jean Frances, a sociology professor at ENSTA Bretagne’s FoAP lab, the investigations and analyses were carried out with Violette Larrieu, a post-doctoral student in the team, and Damien Coadour, also a professor at ENSTA Bretagne.
Violette: “We decided to study how the military get involved in innovation. These innovations developed “by and for” the military are grounded in their own experiences. They often concern their matériel and armaments to improve their working conditions and efficiency on duty.
We focused our research on the Special Forces by traveling to several Units across France and outlining the trajectory of these innovations, from the idea to its scaling up, via the prototyping and certification stages. The report drafted on behalf of the AID presents this innovation work by and for operatives and sets out various recommendations likely to improve the conditions in this regard".
I2DI Project (Innovation de défense, défense de l’innovation)
While the TRAVID project mostly related to the sociology field, the ID2I project initiated in 2023 bears more on the political sciences.
Jean Francès: “Our goal is to understand how innovation has become a public policy focus and how it is considered. This involves analyzing the systems implemented by the Ministry for the Armed Forces to encourage innovation. Ultimately, the idea is to combine the top-down and the bottom-up approaches.”
In the context of this research, Violette Larrieu has won support from the Foundation for Social Sciences (in the 2023-2024 cohort).
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