Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute

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3 distinct centers, providing access to all entrepreneurial ideas!

About our Centers

The mission of the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute is to lead an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Europe for talents and corporate transformations, accelerating enduring and positive impacts across business and society. Now comprising three distinct centers, providing access to all entrepreneurial ideas with any in different steps of innovation.

Incubation & Acceleration Center - Lead Content

Incubation & Acceleration Center

Empowering entrepreneurs seeking to find solutions to our future by creating assets and connecting communities.

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Incubation & Acceleration Center Team

Director

Event & Startup Manager

Startups Community Builder

Communication & Event

Deep Tech Center - Lead Content

Deep Tech Center

Bringing business and strategic support to revolutionary, science-based innovations with the potential for high impact on business, society, and the environment, driven by disruptive technologies: Biotechnologies, AI, Quantum, Climate, Space.

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Deep Tech Center Team

Executive Director

Program Manager

Director of Strategic Projects

Sophia El Hajaj Gnassounou

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Projects Manager

Edwige Migan

Program Manager

Social Entrepreneurship Center - Lead Content

Social Entrepreneurship Center

Embracing entrepreneurship as a tool for social transformation and promoting a solidary economy that creates a value chain for society, generates positive impact, and brings about structural changes for a more inclusive and fairer world.

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Social Entrepreneurship Center Team

Nathalie Riond

Directrice pédagogique - Pôle Entrepreneuriat

Director of Impact Development

Tatiana Martic - Accélérateur ESS

Associate Director

Communication Manager

Digital Manager

Amira Lahmar

Program Lead

Program Builder

Program Builder

Magali Sak

Program Builder

Program Lead

Isabelle Soeung Mockel

Program Lead

Anne Vansteelant

Program Lead

Louise de Isasi

Program Builder

News

Oct 05, 2026

The Biological Fracture: Mapping the Next Wave of Medical Biotech Commercialisation

Biotech is no longer one industry with one investment logic. In this analysis, Livia Kalossaka maps more than 1,000 deep tech startups to reveal how AI drug discovery, TechBio platforms and...

Oct 01, 2026

As Conflicts Multiply, What Responsibilities Do Businesses Have?

To mark the International Day of Peace, HEC Paris and the French Red Cross brought together researchers, experts and business leaders at HEC Alumni on Monday, September 21, 2026, to explore corporate...

rofessors Ekaterina Netchaeva, Crystal Yanting Shi and Anastasia Buyalskaya

Sep 30, 2026

Who Gets Ahead at Work? Examining Bias at HEC Paris MBA

Drawing on three academic disciplines and students’ own workplace experiences, the intensive elective asks future leaders to scrutinize the evidence—and the decisions they might otherwise take for granted...

PhD first years on first day

Sep 29, 2026

From Climate Anxiety to Space Law, Meet HEC’s New PhD Cohort

HEC’s incoming class of 14 doctoral students arrives with research interests ranging from climate anxiety and lower-emission cars to dynamic pricing, academic careers and the law governing private...

Mark Dillemuth, Saneena Anzalone and Marc Nasr, MBA Participants

Sep 28, 2026

From North America to the HEC Paris MBA: Rethinking What’s Next

They left careers in aerospace, luxury retail and data science to study in France. The move has changed not only where they might work, but what they imagine doing next. Saneena Anzalone (MBA '27) was...

Sep 28, 2026

Youssef Yammine on Pursuing a New Direction through the EMBA

“The EMBA helped me develop a broader business perspective. It gave me more confidence to challenge my own assumptions and consider opportunities outside the path I had followed for many years.”