and holds the Economics Defence Chair, created by the Cercle des Partenaires endowment fund at the IHEDN. His work focuses on corporate funding, the economics of innovation and the economics of defence. He has conducted a number of empirical studies to explore the impact of financial constraints on corporate behaviour, among other things. Mathieu Bécue is a design engineer at the GREThA, where he manages the Via Inno Technological Intelligence Platform, and is joint scientific coordinator of the 'Competitive Intelligence' Open Lab managed by the GREThA and the PSA Group. His research focuses mainly on the development and valorisation of methods designed to improve understanding of innovation trajectories in high-tech sectors. Damien Talbot is a Professor of Management Science at the University of Auvergne, a member of the CRCGM and an affiliated member of GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113). His research focuses on the organisational dynamics that span the supply chain, notably aeronautic supply chain proximity strategies. Among other articles, he recently published two papers on the cases of Thales Avionics and of "Aerospace Valley" Competitiveness Cluster.