France has invested 7.5 billion euros (7.3 billion U.S. dollars) on major projects since the country unveiled the France 2030 investment roadmap in 2021 to support ecological and economic transitions.
The French government had scaled up financial support for 810 projects in 2021.
The projects included building a semiconductor factory, developing hydrogen technologies and manufacturing a quantum computer.
The country also set up several investment funds to support the growth of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the fields of ecological and energy transition.
Some 45 per cent of SMEs were among the beneficiaries against seven per cent of large enterprises, said the government.
President Emmanuel Macron in October 2021, said France 2030 plans was to pour 54 billion euros (53 billion dollars) over the next 10 years to support the country’s innovation and industrialisation, and maintain its industrial capacities for strategic priorities.
