24 Quotes by Jean-Philippe Courtois

You need to create a place where young students can flesh out their business plans and further develop their research projects and then have a fund to help students get started in their businesses.

Everything that can be associated to ideas, inventions, copyrights, and patents is part of the IP world - at least, that's my definition. That all starts with people. Education is key.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

At the end of the day, if you want to create more IP and more invention, you need to connect between research and entrepreneurs. People who are going to take a risk.

There is a $30 bn. opportunity in the cloud.

We have 35 different criteria when deciding on the location of a data centre. Tax is one of them.

Innovation will come from an ecosystem of pervasive computing so natural and all-encompassing that it disappears into the background.

Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.

The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.