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Title : L’entrepreneur scientifique, un entrepreneur comme les autres ?

Title: Innovative Entrepreneurship in the Maghreb countries: Challenges for new models of development

Title : Sciences, Techniques et innovations citoyennes

Title : Les industries aérospatiales et de défense : un champ complexe d’innovations ?

« Challenges of ‘agile innovation' », by Laurent Dupont, Laure Morel*

The energy, ecological, digital, economic and social transitions are revolutionizing our industries, institutions and territories. This force us to rethink our practices, knowledge and modes of governance. Furthermore, in the age of globalization and the hyper-increase of digital capacity or artificial intelligence, these changes result in the search and implementation of unprecedented balances. Consciously or unconsciously, public or private, small or big organizations adapt their strategies, business models, projects, and even redefine their role within their technological, economic and social environment (i.e. their ecosystem). These approaches and their context are interdependent and their success is contingent.

The transformation of our society implies, therefore, managing breakthroughs, and new challenges. In other words, on the one hand we must accept a high degree of uncertainty and on the other hand we must develop our capability to be fully aware of the origin, the current skills and the possible future of our organizations. As a result, different needs, visions, ambitions, and beliefs in some cases can interact.

Thus, our environment shows regularly its ability to make appear the unexpected in established order or to provide new answers in critical situations. Novelty may be beneficial or disrupt a comfortable situation. Our degree of acceptance and adoption comes from our willingness to accept changes, to change ourselves or to change our organizations or our environments. Finally, innovation development is the convergence of external (which we benefit from) and internal (which we adopt) agilities.

Thereupon, we define agile innovation as a flexible process transforming individuals, their organization and their environment with three specific challenges:

• Individuals and their interactions, supported by agile process and tools.

Process and tools should be used to generate symbiosis between Human fulfillment and their ecosystem. Individual expertise need to be connected in order clarify the understandings of major issues and to define common and sustainable solutions.

• Collaboration between stakeholders, supported by flexible contract negotiation and relations based on trust.

Contract and trust are intertwined; both elements strengthen each other and this association promotes innovation. In the context of uncertainties, contract introduces an operation framework. Trust is generally considered as the belief that the other person has genuine care and concern for us and that it will honor its engagement. Building a shared sense and a thorough understanding of current needs and possible scenarios strengthens trust and helps to adjust the contract.

• Embodying change, supported by rather than monitoring a plan.

Within organizations, agile innovation encourages people to become more proactive together and co-design shared futures. Individual, organizational and ecosystemic times must be taken into consideration and harmonized.

Debates, Analysis and Perspectives: RNI 2017 Summer School, 28-29th August 2017, « Agile Innovation: Challenges for Individuals, Organizations and Territories? », Nancy, France. For Register: https://rni2017.event.univ-lorraine.fr/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en

* Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire ERPI

Latest Working Paper

N°54 : The Chinese system of eco-innovation: structures, actors, performance, Zeting Liu

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Report

The sustainable entrepreneurial territory. The case of Dunkirk (North, France)
Final report January 2015  – Part 1  – Part 2A – Part 2B

Directed by  Sophie Boutillier, Blandine Laperche et Dimitri Uzunidis
Authors:  Sophie Boutillier, Antje Burmeister, Blandine Laperche, Céline Merlin-Brogniart, Dimitri Uzunidis, Fédoua Kasmi

Population Ageing and geront’innovations
Final report of August 2015

Directed by Bandine Laperche et Dimitri Uzunidis
Authors : Sophie Boutillier, Philippe Chagnon, Faridah Djellal, Marc Ingham, Blandine Laperche, Fabienne Picard, Sophie Reboud, Corinne Tanguy, Dimitri Uzunidis

• Proposition de stage Master 2 formation d’ingénieur : l’INSA de Lyon et la « fabrique » d’innovateur

Institution d’accueil : INSA de Lyon
Début de stage : janvier/février 2018
Date limite de candidature : 30 novembre 2017 envoi à marianne.chouteau@insa-lyon.fr et joelle.forest@insa-lyon.fr

• 12th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Date et lieu : 21-22 September 2017, Paris, France

• Proposition de thèse de doctorat : Histoire de la Plateforme du bâtiment de Saint-Gobain : une illustration de la rationalité créative

Institution d’accueil : INSA de Lyon
Date limite de candidature : 15 septembre 2017

Call for papers: the 8th Institutional and Technological Environments of Microfinance (ITEM 8)

Dijon, December 7-8, 2017
Deadline for proposals submission: September 15, 2017

• Call for Papers: “Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation Ecosystems, Technological Advancements, And Societal Challenges”

Special issue of « Technological Forecasting and Social Change »
First Submission date: September 15, 2017

• Offre d’emploi « Chercheur en économie de la qualité pour des territoires innovants (F/H) »

CIRAD, Montpellier
Date de clôture : 03 septembre 2017

• Offre post-doctorat « Pérennisation des entreprises viticoles bourguignonnes »

Lieu : Dijon
Envoi d’un CV complet avec lettre de motivation par mail aux responsables scientifiques avant lundi 31
juillet midi : hubert.bosse-platiere@orange.fr ; corinne.tanguy@inra.fr ; stephane.blancard@inra.fr, Copie des envois à : florian.humbert@bourgogne-vigne-vin.fr

• Campagne de recrutement ATER 2017-2018

UTBM, Belfort
Candidature : du 12 juillet au 16 août 2017 inclus

• 8th International Research Meeting in Business and Management (IRMBAM-2017)

Date et lieu : 5-6 July 2017, Nice, France

• kid2017 : KID Summerschool 2017

Date et lieu : 2-8 July 2017, Nice, France

• Appel à candidatures : thèse de doctorat – CIFRE

Thème : Drones et industries : une étude prospective
Lieu : Mines St-Etienne, France
Envoyer le dossier de candidature à : Sandrine Berger-Douce (bergerdouce@emse.fr), Jenny Faucheu (jenny.faucheu@emse.fr) et Alexandre Labesse (alexandre@hexadrone.fr)

• Appel à candidatures : thèse de doctorat – CIFRE

Thème : Nouveaux outils et méthodes pour stimuler la compétitivité des entreprises en business participatif
Lieu : Pôle Avenia, Pau, France
Envoyer un CV + une lettre de motivation + lettre(s) de recommandation à : Jérôme PORFIRIO (POLE AVENIA) Jerome.porfirio@pole-avenia.com  (Tél. : 05 59 84 81 10)