Entrepreneur: noun – antonym: French Government

From dictionary.com:

en·tre·pre·neur: noun
A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk [emphasis added]

From the theatre of the absurd:

A year ago, the Elysée had published a summary (. pdf) on the creation of investment funds, which explained that the objective of France Patents would enable SMEs to more easily sell their inventions, by delegating their marketing [to] the state company [emphasis added]

The French government proposes to make itself an intellectual property dealer.

The Minister of Higher Education and Research, Valérie Pécresse, the Minister for Industry, Energy and the Digital Economy, Eric Besson, and the Commissioner General for investment, Rene Ricol, give this morning at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris launched the “ Patents France . A project that made the company’s common commercial State and the Caisse des Depots a purchaser and reseller of patent licenses that researchers will be encouraged to deposit in greater numbers.

Isn’t ‘French state marketing company’ an oxymoron?

I really don’t know whether to laugh, or cry, or both…