Research at ESIEE Management

Research themes

• Disruptive innovation and growth markets
• Innovative project management
• Entrepreneurism and financing innovation
• Technologies, usage and companies
• Outlooks on globalisation and institutional changes

Key areas of application

ESIEE Management has developed specific expertise in advanced technology, particularly ICTs, materials engineering and biotechnologies. The five research interests span a variety of applications. They are equally relevant to management science (finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategy, project management, etc.) or economic and social sciences (industrial economics, innovation economics, international economics, spatial economics, etc.) as "hard" science (theory and practice of information science, materials science and life science), including leading sectors like nanotechnologies.

Partnerships

The lecturers and researchers at ESIEE Management work in various laboratories:

• the Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation, Société (Ifris) coordinates and develops research on innovation, governance of science and technical democracy. The partner members of this scientific interest grouping are the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEMLV), ENPC ParisTech, the French Institute for Political Studies (IEP), Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP) (ESIEE Paris) and the French Observatory of Science and Technology (OST). ESIEE Management plays an active role within the Ifris on areas relating to scientific, technical and economic intelligence.

• In the framework of an agreement with the LATTS (research group on technology, territories and societies), ParisTech Graduate School (ENPC, University of Paris-Est), three professor and a research engineer are participating in the work of the TIO (Technology Innovation Organisation) team.

• In the framework of an agreement with the Methods of Industrialisation Study Centre (CEMI) of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS), one professor is conducting research into economic theory and international and industrial economics with this laboratory.

• A team of three professors has joined forces with the IRG-PRISM (Innovative Services Management Projects) team of the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (University of Paris-Est).

• A cycle of seminars in entrepreneurial finance has been organised by a lecturer at Advancia, with the support of the CDC, in the framework of a partnership agreement with Advancia/Negocia.

• A team comprising four professors is participating in the research project in entrepreneurial finance, which was proposed by the Entrepreneurial Chair of Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with HEC, ESCP-EAP and Advancia/Negocia.

• A professor is leading projects on company demographics in partnership with the ERUDITE Laboratory of the University of Paris XII (University of Paris-Est).

• A professor represents ESIEE Management at the CIRPP, the laboratory supporting and approving the educational study and research programmes of Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Milestones

In 2008-2009, papers were presented at international conferences (e.g. the Laemos Colloquium in Brazil, the fifth Congrès de l'Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec). Publications were featured in peer-reviewed international journals (e.g. Research Policy, International Atoms for Peace, International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management).

Jean Redis, Professor of Finance, is publishing a book with De Boeck, in the Small Companies and Entrepreneurism collection, entitled: "Finance entrepreneuriale - Le créateur d'entreprise et les investisseurs en capital" in autumn 2009.

Composition of the Research entity

13 research lecturers are involved in research activities. A research committee is responsible for research orientation in addition to discussion and validation of the projects in the framework of seminars.