Faculty & Research

Idea Center

Innovation | Digital & Data | Entrepreneurship | Acceleration

The HEC IDEA Center has recently been created to enhance HEC's reputation as the leading European Business School for Entrepreneurial and Digital Innovation, meeting the aspirations of a new generation of students and the needs of businesses. As well as overseeing the coordination of the Business School's programs, the IDEA Center runs an innovation laboratory for developing cutting-edge ideas and it will soon have a research center dedicated to data science.

Key Facts

400

projects supported each year

100%

of students sensitized to entrepreneurship & innovation

+40

years of entrepreneurship program

StartUp Launchpad Projects supported per year

start-ups currently hosted at the HEC Incubator

HEC Challenge+ innovative projects trained each year

Success Stories

Behind every great idea is a great entrepreneurial team. Discover our success stories.

Céline Lazorthes is the founder and CEO of the Leetchi Group, which has more than ten million users in over 150 countries! BACKGROUND Created in 2009 by Céline Lazorthes, Leetchi.com is a secure web service that provides a fun and easy way for people...

Nathalie Gaveau is the founder of Shopcade and the General Manager of Lagardère Active Shopping. She was also the co-founder of PriceMinister that was sold to the Rakuten Group in 2010 for $250 million. BACKGROUND Shopcade was founded in 2011 in the...

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet was the founder of PriceMinister.com in 2000. He left PriceMinister.com in 2014 and has subsequently established two investment funds, ISAI and Kernel Holding Investments. BACKGROUND PriceMinister.com was founded in Paris in...

François Pelen is the co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Groupe Point Vision. The company boasts 23 ophthalmologists centers in France, and hopes to expand to 50 over the next five years. BACKGROUND Almost 6 out of 10 French people have, at one...