Inria’s Exploratory Actions: taking risks

Exploratory actions provide an opportunity to put trust in the intuition of researchers. Through this scheme, Inria is able to focus resources on a number of subjects that are highly innovative, risky and potentially disruptive with regard to the institute's traditional approaches - in artificial intelligence, in e-health and in digital agriculture. It provides a way of delving deeper into individual subjects and proving their relevance from a scientific perspective: an essential step prior to launching the creation of a new project team. This might also involve exploring themes that are unusual for Inria or which are normally steered clear of, including subjects relating to social sciences or law.