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As a mission-oriented research agency, INRA has always initiated and sustained close partnership relationships with its socioeconomic environment. The type and positioning of its partners, and management of the very varied relationships built up with them have, over time, highlighted three principal modes of interaction, which have developed in response to evolutions in science and technology, the socioeconomic environment and its expectations: It is essential that the different demands of society are listened to and translated into action, through the identification and construction of research questions deemed to constitute priorities by "society". INRA aims to ensure the socioeconomic usefulness of its work through critical analysis of the relevance of its mission-oriented research, both before and during its conduct. Contractual relationships with farming, regional and industrial partners provide an excellent opportunity to ensure this dynamic adjustment. These partnerships implement research activities which have been developed in collaboration and thus involve the joint commitment of scientific resources and expertise. This implies a sharing of risks through the pooling of scientific resources, requiring the exchange of strategic information and leading to the contractual exploitation of jointly obtained results. These encourage the use and exploitation of knowledge acquired by INRA concerning applications developed in the strategic, industrial and commercial context decided upon and funded by the partner.
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