Why is Patrick Aebischer creating a venture capital fund to invest in start-ups developing new technologies for culture?

After combining biology with engineering by introducing life sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the now President Emeritus of the institution is convinced that innovation blossoms at the boundaries of disciplines. For him, new technologies can fertilize art, culture and the human sciences. Despite some difficulties with EPFL's Venice Time Machine project, he is so convinced of this that after having created the ArtTech Foundation to facilitate these pollinations, he is preparing a venture capital fund to finance start-ups resulting from this hybridization. Exclusive interview.