Innovation and competitive watch: the role of investment funds – Part 1: SEB
For any organization, the strategic decision to innovate in a domain is accompanied by the choice of an innovation management model, typically characterized by its degree and form of openness to other...
View ArticleInnovation and competitive watch: the role of investment funds – Part 2 : Alstom
Alstom How to detect innovative technologies Operating both within the fields of power (Alstom Power and Alstom Grid) and transportation (Alstom Transport), the core business of the Alstom Group is...
View ArticleInnovation in France : the View from Austria
A dose of critical perspective Karl Aiginger‘s recent article (click here for the German version) on the French innovation system takes no prisoners when it comes to answering a question seldom...
View ArticlePRESANS partners with the “24h of Innovation”
On the 28th of October 2011, PRESANS partners with the 24h of Innovation. 24h to innovate An international challenge based on the stimulating 24h format to develop creative, artistic and innovative...
View ArticleThe Role of Innovation at a Global Level: The Case of Continental AG
At the Grenoble Innovation Fair, the first keynote speaker was Reiner Hoeger, Director Engineering Governance and head of innovation at Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG). Reiner gave a very...
View ArticleSchneider Electric: Focusing Research on Use Cases
During the conference on Open Innovation and the Globalization of Research organized by L’Usine Nouvelle on the 1st of December 2011, Claude Ricaud, Sr VP Innovation of the Power division of Schneider...
View ArticleJacques Schmitt, Senior Consultant at Presans, Invited Speaker at the...
The fifth EPS (European Physical Society) Forum Physics and Society will take place in CERN, Geneva (2012). Previous meetings were held in Graz (2006), Zakopane (2007), Ratnieki (2009) and El Escorial...
View ArticleInnovation Barometer 2012
Crisis and paradox GE France commented on the results of the second annual GE Innovation Barometer a while ago. The results bear witness to the damaging impact of the economic crisis on the ability...
View ArticlePresans at Paris Space Week
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...
View ArticleMagic & 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...
View ArticleInnovation Intelligence: Commoditization. Digitalization. Acceleration. Major...
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...
View ArticlePanel 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...
View ArticlePoints de vue sur l’innovation : un entretien avec Dario Liguti et Laurent...
“L’avantage d’être un conglomérat, et l’avantage d’avoir une division dédiée à la R&D, c’est que cela nous permet de réaliser une cross-fertilization entre les différentes branches de la science,...
View ArticleClub de l’Industrie Bordeaux (1/2)
“Même un grand groupe n’a pas la capacité à suivre les expertises dans tous les domaines” – Michaël Haddad Le Club Industrie a réuni autour du thème de l’Open Innovation pour les PME à Bordeaux le 26...
View ArticleMindset Eats Culture: Presans Hosts Talk by Stefan Lindegaard
Global innovation guru, facilitator and pattern catcher Stefan Lindegaard was in Paris last week. He’s already left of course and might be reading this from Brazil right now. But he came to Paris and...
View ArticleParrot: story of a visionary entrepreneur and a young genius building drones...
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...
View ArticleSEBLab: 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...
View ArticleEvery Trick in the Book: Raout Presans 2015
Steep expectations. This is what Albert Meige is faced with as he contemplates next year’s Raout. Because last week’s 2015 edition, brought to you by Presans in partnership with the CCI Essonne and...
View ArticleIs Uberization the Future of Intelligence?
[The French Version of this article was published in Harvard Business Review France] A grinning Jean Botti, CTO at Airbus Group, entrusted us with one of his dreams: A smartphone app that would produce...
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