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Institute for Entrepreneurship

Testifying to its commitment to entrepreneurship, Audencia has created an Institute for Entrepreneurship (IPE).
This institute will fulfill a three-fold complementary mission:

Developing knowledge on entrepreneurs

Developing knowledge on entrepreneurs and on entrepreneurial activity in France and abroad thanks to a multi-disciplinary, nationally and internationally recognised research activity

Training entrepreneurs

Its goal is to train entrepreneurs, that is, autonomous and creative individuals who are open to others and who, in existing firms or in those they are creating or in those they take over, introduce productive, technological, organizational or cultural changes which create economic and social value,

Accompanying new firm founders

To accompany new firm founders by providing them in Audencia’s incubator the intellectual as well as material support that they need to successfully start their new business ; the institute also means to be a plateform for meeting and exchanges of view between firm founders (with managerial or technical profiles), individuals taking over existing companies, funding actors (business angels, venture-capital companies, bankers), industrial experts and consultants.

Research seminar

On 21 April 2011, Michel Ferrary will come at Audencia for a research seminar on « Financing, innovation: a network approach »

Contacts for the Entrepreneurship Institute

Claire Champenois
Director of the Institute
 Send an email to Claire Champenois 

Stéphanie Ledivellec
Assistant
 Send an email to Stéphanie Ledivellec


See the other members of IPE

Les accréditations

  • EFMD EQUIS ACCREDITED
  • AACSB Accredited
  • Accredited by Association of MBAs
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