The assets enabling France to attract researchers,
professors, students and companies must be emphasized
and developed in coordination with all the players
concerned. French universities need to become more
internationally competitive in order to attract the best
foreign students, whose presence helps compensate
for the relative scarcity of callings in scientifi c domains among French students, particularly at the doctoral level. Our country must also place positive emphasis on the recent changes and reforms in French universities, the measures facilitating foreign investment in France and the development of incentive programs encouraging exportation.

The Mobility and Attractiveness Policy Directorate of
the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
(MAEE) is based on the competitive clusters “model.”
These clusters, which include research laboratories,
universities and companies from a given region, were
created in 2005 as part of regional town and country
planning. From the outset, their goal was to encourage
teamwork among players generally unaccustomed to
this type of coordination. Similarly, combining these
three sectors (business, research laboratories and
universities) under a single administrative umbrella
makes it possible to surpass increasingly porous
borders and address the issues relating to international
mobility with all of these infl uential French players.

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