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 Mr. Luc Tissot | 
In the years ahead, a measures of success for enterprise will be its ability to improve the quality of life. The prosperity of a region and successful enterprise go together. The mission of The Tissot Foundation is to reinforce this winning combination. A company cannot survive without profit. Dealing with intense competition is the daily challenge and technological evolution to norm. far from being a catastrophe, change must be accompanied by an aggressive attitude, constant innovation and preparation for the long term. |
| Enterprise can play a critical role in human development by bringing creativity, responsibility and education to the workplace. Thus we believe that a profit motive is not incompatible with human development; each needs the other. We want to apply this concept with those in business and science who think likewise. | ||
The Tissot Economic Foundation, founded in 1980, is a non-profit organization which, through new and specific activities, acts to promote technology transfer and forecasts how such technologies will evolve. In support of this concept, the Foundation is currently developing an inter-regional and international network to stimulate collaboration between science and industry and develop joint projects. The Tissot Economic Foundation fosters a dynamic and committed approach to economics. It endeavours to implement a philosophy based mainly on various aspects of capital-venture; it also strives to maintain an open debate on the relevance and management of new technologies in society. The Tissot Economic Foundation participates in the non-profit phase of a process which optimizes human resources. In a regional environment, this implies developing openings for technical know-how, not only from an economic and technological stands, but also in a social, cultural and ecological context. The Tissot Economic Foundation's activities are also designed to increase the scope and quality of its network through fundamental and applied research projects. This involves processing information on a large scale, stimulating social and cultural connections and experimenting with different types of on going training. In this way, the Foundation aims at promoting innovative attitudes compatible with the improvement of the quality of life in general.  Room for debate exists for a network of partners who have ideas, tools and projects to develop. At the last General Assembly, the question arose of asking people who were interested to pay a subscription towards the cost of running the Foundation. The Foundation can either develop its activities or concentrate on a smaller group of projects. The staff is waiting to receive a proposal from its auditor, Revisuisse Price Waterhouse and is counting on receiving further suggestions from its partners as to how future activities should be mapped out. In any event, increasingly, the current trend is moving towards collaboration with third parties. Ideas and connections for link-ups are available. For those who are interested, information can be obtained on the way in which the interface between science and industry functions, on networking, on the innovation centre concept and on the notion of core capabilities. On a final note, the cycle of development that is currently coming to a close should be followed up with a stronger resolve to form partnerships than in the past. |