Question 8336 — industry

Summary

Mr. Frédéric Weber alerts the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty to the worrying situation of the Carmat company, a French pioneer of artificial hearts. This company, resulting from French research and long supported by public and private capital, is at the origin of the Aeson artificial heart, recognized as one of the most promising innovations in the treatment of terminal heart failure. After three decades of development, CE marking and more than a hundred implanted patients, Carmat represents strategic know-how, at the crossroads of biotechnology, the health industry and high-precision medicine. On June 30, 2025, Carmat declared itself in cessation of payments, as it had not been able to raise the 3.5 million euros necessary for its short-term survival. This signal alarm says a lot about the shortcomings of the French model of support for technologically intensive businesses. France can no longer afford to lose, one after the other, its industrial gems for cash flow reasons, at the very moment when it claims to regain its health autonomy. Innovation is worthless without a firm political will to preserve it and make it prosper. He asks her to wear a pay particular attention to this risk of closure and would like to know if the Government finally intends to provide itself with the means for an industrial health policy worthy of the name. Finally, he asks him to specify what concrete measures will be taken to save Carmat, guarantee the monitoring of patients already carrying devices and ensure that France does not cede, once again, one of its most brilliant successes to foreign interests.

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