2017
Global, on-going innovation
The appointments organized or co-organized by the Innovation Department in 2017 were too numerous to mention. But from this long list that demonstrates the degree to which innovation has integrated all the components of Audencia Business School, we can still cite a few major events or feats that marked the year by their importance and their deep meaning. For example, in mid-March, the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa Nantes Alliance Week brought together more than 1000 students from the three schools for 72 hours focusing on innovation. “This high point marked a climax in the production of inter-school synergies within a matrix designed by and for innovation and built to accelerate skills hybridization. The students, their professors and consultants in attendance were impressed by the workshop, which allowed teams mixing future managers, engineers and architects to test their complementary approaches on one of the 22 problems proposed.” For Valérie Claude-Gaudillat, among other virtues, this type of event brings together a vast ecosystem of companies, start-ups and communities around the three members of the Centrale-Audencia-Ensa Nantes Alliance and their students. “We are touching here on a kind of ideal where the stakes of some become those of others and where creativity and all the resources available in terms of innovation are mustered to meet them.”
In addition to these flagship events, the Innovation Department is seeking specific human resources on a daily basis to stimulate educational innovation for the benefit of the school and its stakeholders. “The educational designers have established a bond of trust with the faculty, the program directors and the various departments. They have been able to bring together those who want to produce new teaching, course or cross-cooperation formats. The highlight of this collaborative work was celebrated at the Innovation Forum on July 6, 2017, an opportunity for all of the departments to present and promote the most innovative initiatives to their colleagues. The Forum was also a moment for sharing and conviviality.”
