Dr. Florin Paun is Chief Science & Partnership Officer for ARESIA Groupe. His mission is to Support the group Offers by strengthening their Innovative content. He is also in charge with IP and Technology Roadmaps allowing thus to aggregate within ARESIA’s future offers the state of the art in emerging technologies in partnership with R&D laboratories, start-ups, SME, suppliers.

He is also European Innovation Council Jury member for Accelerator and Transition Programs, Due Diligence Expert for EIC Investment Fund, Business Angel, Entrepreneur and Governments advisor.

Dr. Florin Paun was Industrial Innovation Deputy Director at ONERA – The French Aerospace Lab and Strategy & Development Director for the Competitiveness Cluster SAFE. His expertise is in Innovation Ecosystem, Technology Transfer, IP strategy and negotiation, International Business Development and is focusing on complementary knowledge, cross supporting offers, mutual intellectual property valuation, joint spin-off, risk sharing co-development.

Dr. Paun published 4 books in innovation management, J’innove donc je suis, Innover ou Périr, Tous Entre-Preneurs, Sky is no longer a limit… and has been quoted in multiple international newspapers: Aerospace Testing Magazine, Les Echos, l’Usine Nouvelle, Air & Cosmos.