REPORTAGE – After the Great Exhibition of Made in France at the Élysée at the end of October, 1,000 French companies are present at the MIF Expo exhibition which is being held until November 11, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center.
He deplores it: “In France, we have good ideas, but we are being bought out by the Americans.» On this last weekend of October, Raphaël, an aspiring accountant student, strolls through the Élysée Palace with two of his classmates. All three won an entry ticket for the 4e edition of the Great Exhibition of Made in France.
In the aides' lounge, they discover medical innovations such as the connected respiratory rehabilitation device Lorio from the start-up Happlyz Medical. It is made in Pierrefonds (Oise). It is of course the Doliprane affair which inspires Raphaël's displeasure over the fate of good French ideas. He is convinced: France is a country that innovates and is at the forefront of technology. And this is what the exhibition of French know-how seeks to show.
A helicopter on the lawn
This year, 122 products were selected out of the 2,200 presented by the companies. The Cabri G2 from the Aix-based company Hélicoptères Guimbal, very popular with schools…
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