INNOVATION
Panel 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, organized a conversation on the value proposition and business model of...
Albert 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 deliver a speech on “open innovation in a digital world”. He got a...
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 Director, François Plais, head of tech transfer,...
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 my first visit. Three components leave an impression on me: the...
Challenges in Innovation: Oil & Gas Case Study
Article originally published in Pétrole & Gaz Informations #1837 (July / August 2015) We’ve conducted interviews with several tens of innovation managers, from R&D, strategy, and marketing of big corporations for our recent book...
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 talents) to put superior products on the...
Panel Discussion on Innovation Intelligence @ Mardis de l’Innovation
Marc Giget strikes again. The innovation thinker who pens forewords is also the focal point around which the French innovation community gathers. Over 200 people attended this week’s edition of his seminar. Topic of the session : Open Innovation — perspectives after...
Innovation Intelligence: Commoditization. Digitalization. Acceleration. Major Pressure on Innovation Drivers.
In our book Innovation Intelligence, we give an overview of recent, disruptive trends that induce changes in the way large corporations deal with open innovation. The book was written after approximately 40 interviews with the Chief Technology Officers and Chief...
Magic & Innovation – Conference at Les Mardis de l’Innovation
On June 18th 2013, Marc Giget invited me (Albert Meige) to the “Mardis de l’Innovation” to give a non-serious conference on the theme "Magic & Innovation". For the occasion, I also asked my friend Frank Debouck (head of the Ecole Centrale Lyon and... great...
New cures for rare diseases thanks to open and user innovation initiatives
In the beginning of the 21st century Henry Chesbrough coined the paradigm of Open Innovation in management sciences. Open Innovation is defined as “the use of inflows and outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation, and expand the markets for external use...