Enhancing the innovation dynamic
ISAE-SUPAERO aims to develop a spirit of innovation, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship among its students, and to support the creation of businesses within its community.
A department is mainly dedicated to this activity and is involved in several areas:
- Identifying problems to be solved, providing students and lecturers with ideas and identifying potential solutions;
- Selecting projects with the potential to create value;
- Supporting project leaders from the training stage through to the transformation of the idea into a business, by providing personalised advice, organising visits by technical and business experts, and encouraging local networking with investors, partners, customers, beta testers, etc.
- Planning, by teaching innovators to develop a strategic vision for the development of their business.
A few figures:
- 24 entrepreneurial projects supported per year
- 10 or so deep-tech start-ups hosted on campus
- More than 200 training courses given each year to innovative project leaders
- Nearly 1,400 hours/year of “innovation and entrepreneurship” courses in engineering, masters and Specialised Masters® programmes
- More than 400 active members in our fablab, InnovSpace
- +170 start-ups created by alumni
We spark the future" label
The “We spark the future” label, a guarantee of excellence and passion
The primary purpose of the “We spark the future” label is to create a common identity and unite all the companies founded by the ISAE-SUPAERO community: alumni, students, teachers-researchers and staff.
It also reflects the Institute’s values of excellence and passion.
This label is officially awarded to each new company that emerges from ISAE-SUPAERO and meets the Institute’s own entrepreneurial criteria: it must be in the field of impact deep tech and concern the aeronautics/space/defence sector.
They have been awarded the “WE SPARK THE FUTURE” label:
- ALPHA Impulsion
Hybrid self-destructing launcher capable of destroying 95% of the rocket at its destination. - DYCSYT
Software for modelling/controlling vibrations/oscillations of flexible panels deployed on satellites - ELDA Technology
GIS web platform for processing drone data to optimise snowmaking in ski areas - SNAPACCESS
Software and hardware solution that facilitates infrastructure access management for professionals - SPACEFLIGHT INSTITUTE
Training centre for future commercial astronauts - TACITA Dynamics
Vibration and shock damping strategy - Viraj H2
Development of a hybrid powertrain using fuel cells
Testimonials from our start-ups
The 'We Spark the Future' label gives us much more than just a label; it provides us with valuable support, visibility, networking opportunities and expertise that light our way to success.
Charlotte Brenac COO - ELDA TECHNOLOGYWe Spark the Future' enables us to benefit from ISAE-SUPAERO's reputation for excellence, while making it easier to find partners and integrate into the start-up ecosystem.
Anne-Alice Faure SNAPACCESSAs "new entrants to a market", start-ups sometimes suffer from an image deficit and find it difficult to promote their expertise in the face of competition. For a DeepTech start-up like TACITA Dynamics, the image of ISAE-SUPAERO and its 'We spark the future' start-up label brings a measure of credibility that helps us to convince our contacts: partners, customers or even financial backers.
François Dorgeret CEO - Tacita DynamicsAlumni & entrepreneurship: a few success stories
Exotec, France’s first industrial unicorn, Verkor, which has just raised a record €2 billion for its electric battery gigafactory, and Beyond Aero, Ascendence Flight and Blue Spirit Aero, which have just been selected as among the first 9 winners of the France 2030 call for projects “Producing low-carbon aircraft in France”.
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