Entrepreneurial training

For several years, INSA Centre-Val de Loire has been helping to spread the entrepreneurial spirit among its engineering students, landscape architects and doctoral students.

Entrepreneurial training

Innovation is first and foremost a state of mind, a culture. The Institute offers its engineering students a mandatory 32-hour entrepreneurial training module.

Educational objectives

  • Introduce students to the creation of innovative and/or digital companies.

  • Develop knowledge specific to entrepreneurship: business plan, market research, legal forms of companies, industrial property, etc.

  • Develop entrepreneurial know-how: mobilise internal and external resources (partners, financiers, suppliers, distributors).

  • Develop entrepreneurial interpersonal skills: working in a project team, taking initiatives, communicating, etc.

 

Developing knowledge specific to entrepreneurship

Prerequisite 

Training modules in Humanities, Economics, Legal and Social Sciences.

On the program

  • Welcome of participants and presentation of the module.

  • Theoretical courses in entrepreneurship and innovation (12 hours).

  • Creation of project teams of 3 to 5 engineering students. Search for innovative ideas.

  • 5 minutes to convince: pitch ideas in front of a jury of professionals.

  • Exchanges with a teaching tutor, 16 hours, and a professional mentor (entrepreneurs, bankers, experts, etc.), 4 hours (minimum).

  • Writing a complete business plan.

  • 20 minutes of oral presentation in front of a jury of experts.

  • Participation in educational competitions.

Learning methods

  • Mandatory face-to-face training by teachers and temporary staff.

  • Project and collaborative teamwork with other learners, company managers, experts, teacher-researchers, etc.

Highlights

  • Multidisciplinary and multicultural approach to subjects (digital, QHSE, technological innovation, trade and services, SSE, etc.).

  • Submission of a detailed business plan and a poster describing the project.

  • Closing ceremony with a presentation of "Dare to Be an Entrepreneur" award, financed by Crédit Agricole Centre Loire

  • Training referenced by the InnovENT-E Institute: www.innovent-e.com

Student Entrepreneur

INSA Centre Val de Loire is a founding member of the Student Pole for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship (PÉPITE) in the Centre-Val de Loire region, which was labelled by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research on 18 March 2014. The other higher education institutions that founded the PÉPITE are the universities of Orléans and Tours.

This scheme is financed by an Investment for the Future Programme (PIA) and operated by the BPI creation with the help of the National Federation for Education and Business Management (FNEGE).

A motivated student who wishes to create a business during their studies can apply for the national student entrepreneur status at PÉPITE France in order to benefit from advantages such as:

  • National recognition,

  • Access to collaborative work spaces in the entrepreneurial ecosystem (incubator, nursery, FabLab, etc.),

  • Dedicated training (e-learning, modules in partnership with partner universities),

  • Project supervision by teachers, PEPITE project managers and professional sponsors (entrepreneurs, bankers, advisors, etc.),

  • The transformation of the internship into an entrepreneurial project (with ECTS credits).

More information on:
Pépite France

Student entrepreneurs will also be able to participate in actions managed and piloted by the PÉPITE regional hub:

  • Créa’Campus, regional educational competition for business creation, from September to March

  • Regional day of student entrepreneurs (5 per year), testimonials from entrepreneurs and workshops

  • Startup Weekend (on the Blois and Bourges campuses) and other thematic events on entrepreneurship and innovation (TedX, MashUp)

  • Starter, project acceleration program over 4 months starting in April

  • Program 1.2.3: 100% virtual training program from April to June.

  • These actions are financed by the Centre-Val de Loire Regional Council.

More information on:
Pépite Centre

INCUBATOR

In addition to the awareness-raising actions managed by PÉPITE and the training module led by the SHEJS, INSA Centre Val de Loire wants its student entrepreneurs to be able to create their businesses in the region. Since 2015, the Institute has been working in partnership with local entrepreneurial ecosystems (banks, public authorities, incubators, consular chambers, networks of entrepreneurs) via the Créa'Box pre-incubation scheme (advice, support, accommodation).