The 2017 breakdown of a typical R & D budget illustrates the difficulty encountered by people interested in seeking knowledge they do not have internally: the share dedicated to the acquisition of external knowledge represents only 7% of the total, indicating a lack of opening outwards.



This conservative figure of 7% (although already amounting to several tens of billions of dollars worldwide) is set to grow in the coming years. It illustrates the tremendous growth potential of the knowledge economy. Schematically the current situation which illustrates this lack of external-trade would be as follow:



The part dedicated to the acquisition of external knowledge, underdeveloped to this day, can be represented by a small winding road. The transfer of knowledge is slow and impractical. The objective for the future is to intensify these exchanges of knowledge by setting up new, faster and more direct means of communication.