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UE Deeptech entrepreneurship : overcoming challenges from re

ECUE's code : KMUDEI

This course give 3.0 ECTS.
EUR DS4H
Sciences de gestion et du management
Tout à distance
Master 1 , Master 2 , Doctorat
Semestre pair
Anglais

PRESENTATION

In the last few years, the public and private sectors have been heavily investing in innovative projects by stimulating ecosystems that generate innovations. In this context, disruptive innovations come mainly from scientific research. Considering that highly technological projects are the probable basis for a new cycle of significant growth, generating employment and economic sustainability, it seems relevant to densify exchanges between the worlds of research and business.

The challenge we wish to take up here is to contribute to this dynamic by training managers to be capable of evolving in uncertain and changing technological environment. The deeptech innovative projects are logically particularly risky, as they last over a long period of time, with often unidentified markets, and require heavy investments. These projects require specific knowledge and skills to emerge, raise money and grow. The purpose of this courses is to train managers able to understand and deal with this complex world and these new issues.

The purpose of this programme is to introduce the participants to the world of entrepreneurship, increase entrepreneurial spirit without distinction of discipline.

A focus is given on deeptech (or deepscience) in order to address the most complex challenges and the newest issues related to entrepreneurship.

Course's manager(s)

Nicolas Bruno

Distant

  • 24h of lectures

PREREQUISITES

Before the start of the course, I must ...

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, I should be able to...
  • Consider start-up creation like a path of scientific research valorisation
  • Understand the issue of disruptive innovation
  • Understand the links between industry and research
  • Know how to assess the economic potential of a scientific asset
  • Master the keys of academic spin-off
  • Master the essentials issues of intellectual property
  • Communicate about your project and funding issues
  • Train managers able to evolve in highly technological environment
  • Apprehend the territory in the development of its deeptech ecosystem
  • Train managers able to manage an agile company

CONTENT

  • You have a promising technology and want to launch a company. This session will help you to understand the key points of Deeptech business launch, get the roadmap and description of the ecosystem, and learn about the tools that can help you.

    Speaker: Florent Genoux

  • Intellectual Property protection will provide your start-up a sustainable competitive advantage. Learn about the legal tools that can help you succeed with your project and build an effective IP strategy protecting your innovation.

    Teaching objectives

    The aim of this course is to give students a global overview on intellectual property rights. Several misconceptions are made regarding the tools used in intellectual property rights: the lecture aims to explain the difference between patents, designs, trademarks and what does it mean to register them: is it useful, when you should do it, etc.

    The course gives general guidelines to handle intellectual property rights and also as an economic asset having value in a broad sense.
    Students should be able to:

    • Understand the main tools used in intellectual property rights
    • Know the difference between patents, trademarks, and designs
    • Learn to read contracts to transfer rights
    • Understand the economics of IP asset valuation

    Speaker : Michel Callois

  • Marketing strategy will help leverage IP strength. The course explains the importance of identifying customer needs, several market niches, and to iteratively test them out using a lean startup approach to find the best product market fit to get started.

    Speaker: Guillene Ribière

  • Business model is the underlying sesame of value creation and profitability planning. This course will help you to define the business value, establish business strategy based on the environment and choose the most appropriate operational methods for achieving sustainable competitive advantage.

    Teaching objectives

    • Ability to go through a business modeling process for a new technology business and iterate on it (using the BMC 9 boxes and other alternative models and tools and reflecting on their applicability)
    • Ability to interact with business experts during a business modelling and planning process (in both parts)
    • Understanding of the roles and interaction between the main business functions within a company and ability to perform business model innovation

    Speaker: Galena Pisoni

  • Innovation requires reactive project management tools. Mapping clear priorities, keeping constant focus on business value and quality, choosing the adaptive methods of project control will help to advance with your project.

    Teaching objectives

    • Key concept on project management & project lifecycles
    • How can we use and adapt project management to run innovative projects ?
    • How companies use ''agile'' concepts to run innovative project in the tech world ?
    • Key concepts around agility
    • How ''agile'' is used and adapted in real world to fit a company and to deliver innovative projects

    Speaker: Mélissa Michelet

  • From prototyping to operational plan and scaling up, the entrepreneur needs to plan out the operations process, costs, managing resources and equipment. The course addresses the main challenges of a Deeptech start-up, such as initial low profitability, inventory management and resources planning.

    Speaker: Christophe Imbert

  • The essential element of the start-up success is the ability to find rending for running and growing the business. This course will introduce you to the various options that you may consider and the key points of financial planning, cash flow management and financing tools.

    Speaker: Nicolas Riche

  • Pitch is crucial for promoting your project and federating support. This course will help you to build the structure of your presentation to convince the public of the successful business model that replies to customer needs.

    Speaker: Sophie Monteil

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