An integrated program that grows, hosts and supports intrapreneurial projects in a unique scientific and academic ecosystem.
The Ecole Polytechnique Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center enables the excubated teams of large corporations to accelerate their innovation process.
Key points
Promoting the company and its businesses, create opportunities
Accelerating the innovation process
Maintain and re-force skills
Being part of an active network
Benefiting from personalized follow-up support
Accessing fundamental and applied research
Spotting and recruiting talent
Excubation for major corporations
A unique program
Creating interactions between companies and researchers, providing scientific insight into the challenges of the future, encouraging collaborations and co-development, helping students join the world of industry.
Work spaces, just for you
Access to a 1,000 m² prototyping facility and help from research engineers
Connection to lab resources
Immersion in an ecosystem
Recruits for your project
Possibility of working with the Center's startups, next to smart people.
OBJECTIVES
Developing and accelerating innovation and value creation, with a combination of intellectual and material capital
Developing and accelerating innovation and value creation
Promoting interactions between companies and researchers
Providing scientific insight into the challenges of the future
Encouraging collaborations and co-development
Promoting bridge-building between academia and the business world
Our Partners
Resources
A comprehensive range of resources for your project
Scientific and technical resources
Prototyping facility; Low-cost prototyping; Validation of technologies and solutions; Help from research engineers; Awareness of labs' research results; Access to lab resources.
Human resources
Team members - up to 1 or 2 FTE; Management support; Team rotations; Hosting of temporary task forces, Team acceleration; Immersion in the ecosystem; Attracting talent.
Networking, partnerships
Collaborative innovation; Coopetition; Open innovation; Contribution to a technology platform or ecosystem; Alliances; Sharing good practices; Development and business opportunities
Methodology
Change management; Open innovation; Scrum project management; Agile and lean methods; Internal communication; External communication; Decision-making; Feedback loop; Trickle-down innovation; Experience sharing.
M&A, strategic development
Identification of startups; Spin-off creation; Collaboration with X-UP and X-TECH startups; Help and support to specific external startups.
Testing the business model
Value proposition; Market prototype; Channel and segmentation validation; Marketing support; Structural cost; Income streams; Financial validation.