in 2015, airbus group said it was establishing an r&d center and venture capital fund in silicon valley. airbus ceo fabrice bregier stated: "what is the weakness of a big group like airbus when we talk about innovation? we believe that we have better ideas than the rest of the world. we believe that we know because we control the technologies and platforms. the world has shown us in the car industry, the space industry and the hi-tech industry that this is not true. and we need to be open to others' ideas and others' innovations,"