Next Friday, on 19 June, we shall host the second lecture of our series on Innovation, organised with the Académie des technologies and the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford. Our speaker, Prof. Jacques Lesourne, has been for several decades a decisive participant in the public debate on science, politics and society in France. His continued involvement in prospective makes him a capital witness in the ongoing debates on the French reforms of  higher education and research.