The Open Innovation Institute

The Open Innovation Institute is a CentraleSupélec program.

The aim of the Institute is to develop sustainable, constructive and balanced relationships between large accounts and start-ups. IOI activities are divided into three areas:

• Deploying a methodology of innovative business acceleration with its founding corporate members (Altran, Mazars, Société Générale and VINCI) and partners (Axa Global Direct and UP Group)
• Developing training programs for start-ups and large accounts
• Conducting studies and research on open innovation and relationships between large accounts and start-ups.

The Offering

Dedicated Accelerators 

The Open Innovation Institute offers a project that provides a bridge between theory and reality.

Institute teams support their partners in their transformation into an innovative organization through a program of collaboration with start-ups.

Our collaborative ecosystem:

What is the difference between an incubator and our business accelerators?

focused on the physical aspects and basic services offered to start-ups in their first stages.

Business accelerator: focused on business development and innovation processes, providing convergence processes for a start-up and large account (large company/middle-market company).

Programs

The Open Innovation Institute provides training modules to its members and start-ups committed to its accelerators, in order to help them in their transformation and collaboration.

These training programs are offered on four main themes, taught in adapted formats.

Start-up Culture

Large Accounts Culture
The Large Accounts training program aims to raise awareness in start-ups involved in Open Innovation Institute business accelerators about the logic and environment of large accounts with which they wish to forge sustainable and reciprocally beneficial relationships. This program covers the theoretical aspects of this constantly changing world (knowledge of multi-divisional organizations, understanding the open innovation logic of large accounts, key account management techniques adapted to the issues concerning open innovation). It also aims to place participants in action mode to guide them in their approach to this relationship by better defining their objectives, their strengths and the areas they must reinforce to optimize their chances of success.

Open Innovation in a Digital World: Latest Trends in Innovation Management
More than ever, it is a question of survival to do more and more with less and less. (Open) innovation is the Darwinian response to environmental changes, not just hype. In the conference, we propose to get an overview of recent relevant practices in terms of innovation management and tools – particularly digital tools. Most recent topics that might be covered: Context Change: open Innovation in a digital world; Innovation: towards dynamic organization; Towards the uberization of talent.

Open Innovation and Intellectual Property
The “Intellectual Property – Business Secrets” program directed by Anne Bourdu, an attorney associated with the LEXT law office, aims to give a global vision of the rules governing protection and use (i) of creations, whether they are artistic or inventive, created by one or several people, and (ii) of company business secrets and know-how. The objective is to give people completing this program some avenues of exploration in order to understand the main issues surrounding the laws and regulations applicable to intangible property, using concrete examples.

Start-up Equity
The “start-up equity” program aims to teach the basics of capital investment in start-ups, particularly a corporate venture combined with an Open Innovation strategy. After providing a perspective of French “venture” within the various categories of international asset management, the different aspects of investment are studied: developing a venture team, operational formats, regulations, tax, and then the investment itself: selection criteria, investment process, contractual formalities, outflows, etc.

Rapid Innovation Design
A methodology of radical innovation that has evolved through use and necessity: Radical Innovation Design®, was developed by Bernard Yannou to explore and organize growth areas in a structured way from users who are dissatisfied or in “uncomfortable” situations. It can be summarized as “Finding an unresolved problem, an unsatisfactory use or practice, investigating and providing a value-creating solution!”

Studies

The Open Innovation Institute conducts empirical studies of the best international practices in the relationships between start-ups and large companies in a context of Open Innovations.

Published studies:
“Embracing Open Innovation”.

This study treats the historical foundations of open innovation, describes the issues and benefits of embracing it and offers an overview of the strategies for adopting this approach.

This document is aimed at company executives, start-up managers, researchers and students. By reading it, they can better understand Open Innovation, grasp the difficulties and understand the systemic impacts. Available in French and English.

Contact

If you would like to contact our team, please complete the following form by clicking here. Or:

• contact@institutopeninnovation.fr
• Tel.: +33 (0)6 12 91 53 96

It comprises several production machines, including a rapid 3D printing machine, a vacuum casting machine and various tools. Contactless 3D digitalization resources are also available, as well as a range of CAD software. Support is available to help project leaders through the phases of design, scale modeling, prototyping and industrialization.

Pooling of resources facilitates exchanges between the various FabLab users, – students, instructor-researchers and entrepreneurs – and a real culture of innovation through practice is developed, enabling the testing of ideas in real scenarios as soon as is feasibly possible. Each year, around 40 projects use the resources of La Fabrique.

More details can be found at: http://lafabrique.ecp.fr -> Le site ici sera renvoyé vers le nouveau site produit sur Drupal

Created in 2001, the Incubator is aligned with the cutting-edge educational approach of the school. This consists of “training engineers capable of facing the greatest challenges of their times”. On fully equipped premises, the incubator hosts and supports innovative and ambitious projects from their earliest developmental stages, some led by École Centrale Paris and Supélec graduates, but not exclusively. A few key figures:

• 15 - 20 projects incubated at any one time
• 70 companies created
• More than 540 jobs created
• 80% success rate
• A call center comprising 5 telephone desks
• 18 fully-equipped offices
• 3 meeting rooms and a relaxation area

All details and contacts can be found here.

As many as 20 start-ups are being supported in their development in the incubator at any one time.

• Currently developing in the Incubator

For the past 14 years, the École Centrale Paris incubator, now the CentraleSupélec incubator, has hosted 70 companies

• The start-ups of the CentraleSupélec Incubator galaxy

Are you a company wishing to submit an offer for an internship, employment, French International Volunteers in Business program or work-study opening?
 

• Please visit this website

Avec Centralesupélec, investissez dans les ingénieurs du XXIe siècle

Dans un monde où l’enseignement supérieur est désormais globalisé, où la concurrence internationale pour les meilleurs élèves et les meilleurs scientifiques s’accroit, CentraleSupélec a décidé de prendre toute sa place et de se hisser au rang des meilleures institutions mondiales.

Elle s’est engagée dans des projets stratégiques majeurs : construction d’un nouveau campus CentraleSupélec à Saclay, au sein d’une université de visibilité mondiale, renforcement de la recherche en lien avec l’entreprise, ouverture et diversité de ses élèves.

Notre projet nécessite des moyens importants pour maintenir l’excellence de son enseignement.

Les entreprises peuvent aider l’Ecole à développer un projet novateur, qui vise à former des ingénieurs capables de comprendre et relever les grands défis du XXIè siècle, généralistes de haut niveau scientifique et technique, experts du lancement et du pilotage de projets innovants et de forte culture internationale.

A quoi sert la taxe d’apprentissage pour CentraleSupélec ?
Les fonds collectés par la taxe d’apprentissage sont utilisés uniquement à des fins pédagogiques. Ils permettent de rémunérer des conférenciers, des enseignants vacataires, l’achat de matériels pédagogiques ainsi que des visites et déplacements pour les élèves.

Le saviez-vous ?
L’École propose depuis 2010 un parcours par apprentissage, durant lequel les élèves-ingénieurs admis à l’École peuvent partager leur temps entre école et entreprise.
Le rythme choisi de l’alternance (2 jours par semaine en entreprise + mission internationale + mission de fin d’étude) leur assure la même formation académique que leurs camarades étudiants et leur permet de profiter pleinement des activités du campus.
L’apprenti fait partie intégrante de l’entreprise et en tant que salarié, bénéficie d’une rémunération et d’une formation gratuite à
l’École.
Le temps passé en entreprise est progressif : de 50% en première année, l’élève est présent près de 80% du temps en entreprise
la dernière année où il effectue des missions stratégiques au cœur des préoccupations réelles de l’entreprise.
Ce parcours constitue un véritable tremplin professionnel pour nos élèves. Plus de 100 élèves ont déjà bénéficié de cette formule.
Si vous souhaitez nous aider à promouvoir cette formule, n’hésitez pas à adresser votre quota libre à l’École en le fléchant sur le CFA UMPC / UFA CentraleSupélec.

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Utilisation de la taxe d'apprentissage

• Conférenciers ou vacataires : 93,7 %
• Documentation et matériel pédagogique : 1,67 %
• Visites, déplacements pédagogiques : 5,26 %

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Our partnerships are designed to enable companies to be present throughout the teaching program, with the aim of recruiting capable talent.

To develop your image among our future graduates and recruit them immediately:

• In the 3rd year, join our students nearing the end of their program with an active presence within the professional options/streams of the 3rd year of the École Centrale program and Major options of the Supélec program.
• Participate in teaching material for the options, streams and majors of the 3rd year.
• Participate through regular and structured activities throughout the academic year: presentations about your company, various job profiles and end-of-year internships you propose; share your company’s international volunteer program and professionalization contracts; participate in end-of-study trips; teach certain lessons; provide expert-led technical conferences, case studies, modules, study or research projects; and participate in discussions concerning teaching content development.
• More than 80 companies, including more than 20 large and medium-sized firms, have partnered with the school for the 3rd year.

To increase your visibility among our future graduates in advance of recruitment and throughout the engineering program:

Complement the above 3rd-year actions:

• From the 1st year: “Company Discovery Evenings” (informal exchanges between 1st-year students and operational staff and/or HR: discovering a business sector, a company and its various job profiles: Audit/Consultancy, Biotech Engineering/Environment, Construction/Large Projects, Consultancy, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Finance/Insurance, IT/Media/Telecoms, Production and Distribution, company in-house R&D, Transport & Systems)
• Company visits, conferences, study projects
• In the 2nd year, engineers talk about their own studies and career development experiences in Career Round Tables: Aeronautic/Automotive/Naval, Audit, Biotech Engineering/Environment, Construction/Large Projects, Consultancy, Creation/Innovation/Design, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Finance/Insurance, SMB, Production/Logistics, Company In-house R&D and Information Sciences
• Mini “Recruitment” forums for all our students (Student-Engineers, Specialized Masters and Doctoral students), during which they have the opportunity to meet companies offering internships: Placement stands, Engineering/Business School Double-Qualification stands, Specialized Masters stands, Companies-Doctoral Students stands, International Internships stands, SMB/Start-Up stands, Work-Study Program Mini-Forums (apprenticeship/professionalization contract)

Various partnership opportunities are offered (ask us about these). Depending on the level of partnership, you can benefit from various advantages such as:

• advertising your internships, job offers, company international volunteering programs and work-study program offers among all our students
• optimized communication (presence on the school site, link to your HR/Career website, presence on our JobTeaser platform, communication about our joint events on our social networking sites, presence on our campus banners, advertising your logo on the screens in our campus and promotion of your company events)
• optimized visibility of your company on the CentraleSupélec Forum
• priority in our diversity awareness actions (gender equality, disability access, cultural diversity)
• participation in teaching events and lessons
• strong ties with the strategy of the school

Companies can join with us in actions to highlight the issues around diversity

Gender Equality:

Companies have joined together with the school in its commitment to gender equality through the creation of “Sébastienne Guyot” scholarships, which aim to enable more young women (with financial need) to study at CentraleSupélec.

Accenture, Bain & Compagnie, BNP Paris, Paribas, Dassault Systems, Eiffage Énergie, Engie, Eramet / The Jean Duval Foundation, The Spie Batignolles Foundation, Fives, Orange, and Sopra Steria – all companies with innovative initiatives for equality and diversity – join together with the school in its endeavors. 

Companies can also share their commitment to this cause by participating in the “Gender Equality among Engineers” conference.

The website « MademoisellefaitCentrale.com » was also created to attract young women to engineering schools. Its launch is aligned with the initiative to promote scientific careers in female high school students.

Disability Access

A Disability Awareness Day is celebrated on each of our school’s campuses, with workshops presenting scenarios. This enables disability access promoting companies to present their policies for supporting engineers with disabilities in their company, and also how they promote disability awareness among their managers.

Cultural Diversity

For the Cordées de la Réussite (French government initiative to facilitate access to education for young people of all socioeconomic backgrounds), companies come and give presentations on their business sectors and job profiles to an audience of high school students.

International partnerships enable companies to sustainably mark their presence in France and in the world

To facilitate recruitment of our international students

In the 1st and 2nd years, in France:

• You can be in direct contact with our future double-degree students (students from around the world who have come from prestigious foreign universities (Stanford, Harvard, Cornell and Columbia (United States), Cambridge (UK), Tsinghua (China), IIT Bangalore (India), Keio University (Japan)
• Be present on the campus for two years, and among French students leaving for international trips at the end of their 2nd year for placements in the best schools and universities in the world via contact events organized on the campus throughout their studies: presentation of your company and job profiles, company visits, conferences and case studies, etc.

And at the end of the program, in view of recruitment in our target countries, you can be present at international Job Fairs that attract our French and international students and graduates:

• Shanghai Job Fair

• Brazil Job Fair

• London Job Fair 

• Berlin Job Fair

Another way to forge links with our international Campuses:

École Centrale Beijing

The École Centrale six-year Engineering program (including one year of learning French and two years of preparatory classes). The first graduates of École Centrale Beijing graduated in 2011. Engineers graduate trilingual (Chinese, French and English), bi-cultural and trained to be operational in international companies as soon as they leave school.

Mahindra Ecole Centrale

CentraleSupélec has opened in India in collaboration with the Mahindra group, the second largest industrial Indian group present in more than 100 countries. Among its specializations: transportation, aeronautics, construction and energy.

This cooperation, in partnership with the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), enabled the creation of the Mahindra École Centrale engineering school in Hyderabad, the capital city of the Indian State, Andhra Pradesh.

Mahindra École Centrale aims to become a renowned engineering and sciences education institution, open to industry and highly ranked worldwide. Its academic program will develop students’ abilities to adapt to changes and the key challenges of tomorrow’s world. 

Visit the Mahindra École Centrale website

Centrale Casablanca

École Centrale Casablanca was the product of a strategic partnership between CentraleSupélec and the Kingdom of Morocco’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and New Technologies.

The agreement to create École Centrale Casablanca was signed on April 3, 2013, by Geneviève Fioraso in the presence of His Majesty King Mohamed VI and the President of France, François Hollande.

École Centrale Casablanca opened its doors at the beginning of the 2015 academic year, offering a post-preparatory class three-year engineering program and a specialized master’s degree entitled “Leadership and Innovative Projects”.

The school is aligned with the Moroccan plan to develop industry operationalized by the 2009-2015 Industrial Acceleration Plan, and meets the CentraleSupélec objectives to train more generalized and high-level scientific generalized engineers and having a strong international culture.

The SMB Club

The approach of the school

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) represent an important element of the economic and social fabric of France and Europe. They play a key role in innovation, research and development. SMBs are also perceived as being more human – avenues for accessing positions of responsibility faster, meaning our students are increasingly attracted to them.

We have also observed that a large number of engineers who graduate from our schools are managing, creating or acquiring SMBs.

On the strength of these observations, CentraleSupélec has created an offer specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, the SMB Club, in order to:

• thank/maintain relationships with the SMBs that currently support us;
• demonstrate the rich variety of jobs offered within SMBs;
• organize contact/collaboration/project events and opportunities;
• facilitate internships, employment and work-study programs in these companies;

Members of the SMB club

• 1000MERCIS

• ACOMMEASSURE

• ALTAIR DEVELOPMENT FRANCE

• ATEME

• CASTELIS

• FONTAINE CONSULTANTS

• INVIVOO

• IPDIA

• IXBLUE

• JAVISTA

• LEMOINE TECHNOLOGIES

• LUCCA

• NEWGENERATION

• NOVAWATT

• PARROT

• PLANISWARE

• PYXISTEM

• QUALIA SYSTÈMES

• RESMED

• SOLYSTIC

• SPOTMYCITY

• STORE ELECTRICS SYSTEMS

• THEODO

• WITHINGS

Contact : club-pme@ecp.fr

Supporting companies through the Apprenticeship program

The Apprenticeship stream enables companies to recruit an apprentice by developing their loyalty to the company over the course of three years. This stream of excellence is open to students completing preparatory classes, upon successfully passing the competitive entrance exam, whose professional projects are well-defined and who want to divide their time between studying at the school and working within a company.

• Download the Apprenticeship and Company brochure.