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Sofia, the World’s Most Advanced Expert Management System

by Albert Meige | Sep 21, 2013 | PRESANS

Today, we are the 21st of September 2013, exactly 4 years after the launch the beta version of our expert management system. This was a long way! We have learnt a lot, from both our clients and our experts. Today, I am very proud to announce that we have a new kid at...

Magic & Innovation – Conference at Les Mardis de l’Innovation

by Albert Meige | Sep 9, 2013 | 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...

Presans Raout 2013

by Jacques Knight | Aug 27, 2013 | PRESANS

Photo, from left to right: Marc, Truls, Jacques, Guillaume, Jacques, Albert, Fabien, Sarah, Jérôme, Hervé, Darko. Summertime comes and people stop what they were doing to gather in a beautiful place and make dreams together. This, in any case, was the mindset of the...

New cures for rare diseases thanks to open and user innovation initiatives

by Darko Jesic | Aug 21, 2013 | INNOVATION

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...

Presans invited to the Tuesdays of Innovation (video)

by Albert Meige | Mar 5, 2013 | PRESANS

On February 26th 2013, Marc Giget invited Presans to the "Mardis de l'Innovation" to present its vision of the Open Innovation and crowdsourcing. (See video at the bottom of this post!) Les Mardis de l'Innovation (the Tuesdays of Innovation), presented by Professor...

Is Our Niche Safe from Google?

by Jacques Knight | Feb 20, 2013 | INNOVATION

At Presans, a question we ask ourselves every now and then is: could it happen that a big player, say, Google, decides to enter the business of open innovation in one way or another? Google already provides very decent patent and search tools for free. What about...

Citroën Creative Awards

by Jacques Knight | Jan 11, 2013 | INNOVATION

Citroën recently launched its 3rd Creative Awards on the topic of connected vehicle smartphone applications. The motto of the challenge: "Open up your ideas". Participants have until 2/10/2013 to submit their proposals. In 2012 the challenge drew 802 ideas from 87...

PRESANS receives 91 d’Or award

by Jacques Knight | Dec 7, 2012 | PRESANS

Over 300 people were in attendance last Tuesday in the amphitheatre of the Evry Genopole when founder of Presans Albert Meige, surrounded with such notable personalities as Serge Dassault, received in the name of his company the 91 d'Or, a trophy delivered each year...

Presans at Paris Space Week

by Darko Jesic | Nov 27, 2012 | PRESANS

Paris Space Week is an event focused on spatial exploring and exploitation, major challenge of the next 20 years due to the strong participation of the set space powers (USA, Canada, Japan, Russia and Europe) and of the emerging ones (China, India...). You can come...

Trust within the (French) pact for competitiveness

by Romaric Servajean-Hilst | Nov 9, 2012 | INNOVATION

"Promoting innovation and quality, entrepreneurship and risk-taking, breaking down barriers and working together, developing skills and (re)giving a taste for technical progress, opening new spaces for dialogue and stimulating collective intelligence. Here are all the...

Presans at Defence & Security Days

by Darko Jesic | Oct 26, 2012 | PRESANS

The Defence and Security Days networking meetings are the only pre-scheduled business meetings dedicated to develop industrial relations among defence and security industry players. Come and visit Presans at our booth at Paris-Orly Airport on...

Presans at MEET INNOV

by Darko Jesic | Oct 26, 2012 | PRESANS

With this 8th edition, Meet Innov has established itself as an indispensable meeting point for innovative companies. Qualified appointments, global conferences, funding agreements, talent competitions and international affairs convention will...

PRESANS partners again with the 24H OF INNOVATION

by Jacques Knight | Oct 17, 2012 | PRESANS

The Biarritz-Bidart hackathon will enter its sixth year on the 19th of October. More participants, teams organized accross multiple sites, more nationalities, and futurist Jeremy Rifkin invited to deliver a keynote - The 24 Hours of Innovation event keeps raising its...