Mindset Eats Culture: Presans Hosts Talk by Stefan Lindegaard
Global innovation guru, facilitator and pattern catcher Stefan Lindegaard was in Paris last week. He’s already left of course and might be reading this from Brazil right now. But he came to Paris and...
View ArticleCo-founder of success story NetCentrex Dominique Lanfranchi joins Presans
Dominique Lanfranchi joins the Presans team as Head of Business Development. His role will focus on developing commercial opportunities and exploring new markets. Packing 25 years of experience in the...
View ArticlePresans @ X Open Innovation | flight data
XOI is a Polytechnique alumni think tank focused on open innovation in all its hues and shapes, founded by Tru Dô-Khac, and currently presided by Céline Conrardy. A dozen-strong section of its members...
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The Parrot Drone Story: Visionary Entrepreneur Meets Garage-Based Genius
In just a few decades, advanced knowledge has become a commodity. For innovative companies it is safer, cheaper and most importantly much faster to assemble external bricks (knowledge, technologies or...
View ArticleIs Uberization the Future of Intelligence?
[The French Version of this article was published in Harvard Business Review France] A grinning Jean Botti, CTO at Airbus Group, entrusted us with one of his dreams: A smartphone app that would produce...
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SEBLab: Quick & Dirty Innovation
The date is September 21, 2015. I am once again in Lyon to work with a client on a cutting edge technology project. I use this as an opportunity to drop by our friends at Groupe Seb and pay the SEBLab...
View ArticlePresans @ Forum Innovation Labs
Presans will participate in the IEA Innovation Forum on Tuesday November 17. The event will focus on the rather trendy theme of innovation labs. At Presans, we look forward to meeting you there....
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Perils of the Honey Pot: Didier Roux on startup – large corporation relations
Our long-time partner, the École Polytechnique, is currently putting in big efforts on the innovation and entrepreneurship front. Because Presans owes a lot to Xavier Michel, its former Managing...
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Every Trick in the Book: Raout Presans 2015
Steep expectations. This is what Albert Meige is faced with as he contemplates next year’s Raout. Because last week’s 2015 edition, brought to you by Presans in partnership with the CCI Essonne and...
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Garage Renaissance: Jean Botti @ Raout Presans 2015
Last Friday, Presans brought in an innovation heavyweight for its annual Raout. After being introduced by Albert Meige, CEO of Presans, and Philippe Lavialle, President of the Chamber of Commerce of...
View ArticleAlbert Meige @ SEB Innovation Forum – Video & Q&A
The SEB Innovation Forum is a biennial two day company event gathering 250 people from all kinds of functions and places. Prototypes, secret projects, and conferences. Albert Meige was invited to...
View ArticlePanel Discussion on Accelerators @ HEC Advanced Technology
There are a lot of accelerators out there, and Presans has its eye on startup ecosystems. Earlier this month, the HEC Advanced Technology Group, the board of which Albert Meige is a member of,...
View ArticlePresans @ X Open Innovation | expert smartsourcing
The X Open Innovation (Ecole Polytechnique Alumni Group on Open Innovation) squad convened again recently for an exchange of views on the subject of expert smartsourcing. No surprise, Presans was on...
View ArticleLooking Back: 2015 for Presans
Let’s face it, on a collective level, 2015 mainly brought us a lot of pain. Remembering that is part of what keeps us afloat in the storm. Switching to the individual level, the tone varies. Looking...
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The Innovator’s Mindset: Being Number Two — An Interview with Miguel Aubouy
There’s something different about innovators that sets them apart in their outlook. They might be doing everything right, and they might even be reaping rich rewards from doing so. Yet they stay away...
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Startup Index Quest | 1
I had a chat with our software engineers Guillaume and Fabien recently, on the topic of startup indexes. According to them, there are currently around thirty indexes in existence that aim to be...
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Three Factors Driving the Uberization of Talents
[This article was originally published in the French edition of the Harvard Business Review] The third industrial revolution: optimization of resources The economist Adam Smith identified three key...
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Interview with Hervé Arribart, Fellow at Presans
Hervé Arribart is taking over the management of Presans Fellows, previously in the capable hands of Jacques Schmitt. Hervé’s career evolution is emblematic of the meta-expert type that lies at the core...
View ArticleStartup Index Quest | 2
After reading this long article in the New Yorker about San Francisco, I found it impossible to avoid the conclusion that the way people work and live over there could just be the perfect...
View ArticleStartup Index Quest | 3 — Zoom on Kima Ventures
In the previous installment of this series, I took a look at the disruptive approach to indexing startups adopted by AngelList. One of the industries disrupted by Naval Ravikant’s company is Venture...
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