Research and impact 

• In January 2020, Dr. G. Bagnarosa was invited by the Economic Affairs Committee of the French Senate as an expert in agricultural insurance. Senator Laurent Duplomb integrated four specific points from his intervention (§4 and §6 of the press release) into the final version of the reform, which was adopted in 2022 (Law No. 2022-298 of 2 March 2022, published in the Official Journal No. 52 on 3 March 2022).
• Dr. Y. Lohéac is a member of expert committees for the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) and the National Nutrition and Health Programme, implemented by the Ministry of Health and Prevention and the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.
• Dr. Roman Matkovskyy and Dr. Akanksha Jalan represent France on the steering committee of the EU COST Action CA19130 on FinTech and AI (Horizon 2020). They were appointed to this role by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research in May 2020.
• Professor C. Azémar made a major contribution to the public debate on U.S. tax policy during the adoption of the pro-growth fiscal plan, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. She has also been a visiting researcher at the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, the Asian Development Bank, and a consultant for the United Nations and the European Tax Policy Forum.
• Since 2016, Dr. C. Alexakis has been a member of the Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group, which advises the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), and served as the representative of the Governor of the Bank of Greece on the selection committee of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund from 2017 to 2020.

• RSB professors present their research and take part in roundtable discussions at the Forum Économique Breton held each year in Saint-Malo. This event brings together key economic stakeholders from across the region.
• They also participate in various regional professional organisations: Bretagne Supply Chain (regional cluster of logistics actors), Le Poool (French Tech), ABEA (professional association of agrobusiness actors), and Bretagne Développement Innovation. They are members of several competitiveness clusters (Valorial, ID4Mobility, Images & Réseaux), which act as bridges between the academic, economic and political spheres.
• Linconiaa (“restoring the connection between consumers and agri-food companies”) is a three-year research project developed with a local start-up and a major agri-food company in Brittany. It received funding from the Bretagne Region and Rennes Métropole in September 2021.
• Three CIFRE doctoral contracts have been carried out in agrobusiness since 2019. The CIFRE scheme allows a student to complete a PhD within a company with the support of the ANRT, thereby contributing to the development of new models in major agri-food companies in the region (Eureden, Avril, Saipol).
• Dr. G. Bagnarosa supervised several master’s students undertaking internships at the Roullier Group, where they developed a risk management tool to measure the group’s exposure to climate uncertainties.
• Our supply chain researchers have developed customised training programmes:
• With bioMérieux, delivering production training sessions for four groups of managers;
• And with Ferrero, providing training sessions for their supply chain management teams.
• The school has established a Regional Observatory for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, focusing on companies in Brittany, with the support of Bretagne Développement Innovation. The aim of the Observatory is to develop collaborative research with local companies and institutions on industrial development.

The Research Department disseminates its research findings to a wide audience (the academic community, students, alumni, companies, and institutions) through various channels:

• RSB publishes the work of its faculty researchers on the CCSD–HAL platform, the scientific repository created by the CNRS, which is freely accessible to all.

• Faculty members also publish articles or give interviews in both general and specialised media, nationally and internationally, including press, radio, and television.

• Since 2021, RSB has been hosting a series of public conferences open to all. This initiative, led by the CUT, aims to enhance the visibility of research and strengthen its dissemination across the school’s ecosystem. These events are held outside the school, in Rennes or Paris, and feature three or four speakers discussing topics such as inflation, urban mobility, energy, or the Chinese economy.

• During the RSB Summit in October 2023, two public conferences were organised: the first on sustainable development in Brittany, and the second on climate change and sustainable agriculture.

The faculty of Rennes School of Business regularly publish research articles in high-quality peer-reviewed journals.

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