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“There is no one right way to manage innovation, it’s about organising the menagerie!”

Rémi Maniak, Professor at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Gestion (I3-CRG)*, Nicolas Mottis, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management at the Centre for Management Research of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute (I³-CRG*) at the École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Are cognitive biases compatible with the scientific method?

Patrice Georget, Lecturer in Psychosociology at the University School of Management IAE Caen

Quantum computers: how do they work?

Landry Bretheau, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Quantum Physicist and Researcher in the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics (PMC*)

Diving into the minds of musicians to uncover new learning strategies

Pierre Legrain, CNRS Research Director in perception and memory at Institut Pasteur

Plastic waste: the need to act quickly before we are submerged

Isabelle Méjean, Head of economics department at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Best young French economist 2020, Julien Martin, professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Quebec in Montréal (ESG-UQAM)

Crossing a wormhole: reality or science fiction?

Guillaume Bossard, Lecturer in physics at École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

China and the race for technological supremacy

Nigel Inkster, Senior Advisor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

New Zealand: the first tobacco-free generation?

Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Professor in Social Marketing at EHESP and member of the Haut conseil de santé publique

“Microplastic pollution in the ocean contributes to antibiotic resistance”

Maria Belen Sathicq, Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Water Research of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

“Our desire for truthfulness makes us suspicious of institutions”

Etienne Klein, Philosopher of science and Professor of Physics at CEA