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

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.