Design of a new course aimed at increasing the number of new innovative and societal enterprises

Anne-Marie Jolly (1) , Frédéric Ros (1) , Carole Grillet (2) , Christophe Léger (1)

1 PRISME - Laboratoire Pluridisciplinaire de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes, Mécanique et Energétique
2 LOG - Laboratoire Orléanais de Gestion (1998-2011)

Europe does not create enough innovative enterprises. Compared to America, the cultural approach of entrepreneurship is quite different in our countries: in USA, the intention of creating an enterprise is very present in young people's head during their studies and they do not fear failure, which is not the case in Europe. So it is necessary to encourage and to accompany young people towards creation. It is the reason why efforts are made for the creation of new curricula, even at secondary school level. It is a fact that the number of enterprises created by Masters and Doctors in Engineering is not very important in France with respect to the number of graduates in these fields. With all the actors of Region Centre we decided to build a one year course inside the engineering school, where people having "an idea" could learn how to lead it towards a new enterprise. This paper presents the genesis and the content of this course with its specificities linked to sustainable development (societal responsibility, eco design) and the demarche to create a consortium of private and public institutions around this curriculum.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

Anne-Marie Jolly, Frédéric Ros, Carole Grillet, Christophe Léger. Design of a new course aimed at increasing the number of new innovative and societal enterprises. SEFI Congress, Sep 2012, Thessalonique, Greece. pp.1-8. ⟨hal-00837635⟩