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Training innovative engineers: entrepreneurial spirit blows through ISAE-SUPAERO courses

Publication Date

22 July 2024

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Eight weeks immersed in an ecosystem of start-ups and a project to pitch at the end to convince investors.

No, we’re not talking about a business school course, but an optional module that can be taken in the 2nd year of the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering course. This year, ten students set their sights on this business creation course. They had two months to set up an entrepreneurial project in the field of data, at IoT Valley. With the possibility of transforming it into a start-up within InnovSpace, the Institute’s incubator.

As a research and training institute, two years ago ISAE-SUPAERO made innovation one of its third pillars. InnovSpace, the Institute’s fablab, has been transformed into an incubator for entrepreneurial projects led by its community. At the same time, ISAE-SUPAERO has incorporated training modules devoted to innovation and entrepreneurship into its curricula. This includes the elective module “Setting up a business creation project”.

An evolution in line with market aspirations

“Companies in our ecosystem are looking to recruit engineers who are committed, creative, autonomous and have a ‘market’ approach,” explains Romain Buquet, professor in charge of innovation and entrepreneurship at ISAE-SUPAERO. “As for our students, they have a real appetite for innovation.”

Born into a family of engineers, but with a background in business, this former creator of high-impact start-ups has been in charge of the entrepreneurship and innovation courses for the past two years. His credo is an innovative approach to teaching. A simulation of “Who wants to be my partner?” with a real coach and a panel of judges from the M6 programme, pitches to (fake) investors with (fake) money… any idea is good enough to pass on to engineering students his taste for entrepreneurship.

A mini-entrepreneurial adventure in 1A

This year marked a new stage, with the integration of an entrepreneurial challenge called Problem Solvers into the core curriculum of the engineering course, starting in the first year. In groups of four, the 217 engineering students had four weeks to create a business project based on a problem raised by an alumni. “The problems were not necessarily related to aerospace and they had to go and interview professionals to put together a credible project”, explains Romain Buquet.

Throughout their mini-entrepreneurial adventure, the students received coaching and met inspiring speakers. To achieve this, Romain Buquet mobilised both the Institute’s alumni community and speakers from a wide range of backgrounds. “No fewer than 105 different professionals took part in this challenge”, he notes. His aim? For the students to have fun! And they did. The winners received a trip to Paris to meet investors and, why not, continue their entrepreneurial adventure.

An MS to “train transformative leaders”

From the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, Romain Buquet will also be in charge of the new Specialised Masters® IEM (Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management)*. This course is accessible after a Master’s degree and is open to profiles other than engineers, even though it has a strong technological dimension. “The unique proposition of this course is to train transformative leaders capable of understanding both the market and the technology”, he explains. “In other words, they must master the technology and know the industry like an engineer, while at the same time demonstrating the business acumen and capacity for innovation of an entrepreneur.”

And Romain Buquet recalls the expertise and specificity of ISAE-SUPAERO in this area: “Among the four French industrial start-ups with unicorn status – those valued at more than 1 billion dollars – three were created by alumni of the Institute”.

* The MS IEM replaces the MS MGPIE (Management of Innovative Projects & Entrepreneurship).

In 2022, innovation, the Institute’s third pillar, has taken on a new dimension at ISAE-SUPAERO. My arrival as a permanent teacher in charge of innovation and entrepreneurship is concrete proof of this. I’ve been able to start drawing on my dual experience as an entrepreneur (INCO, Impact Campus, Virvolt) and as a teacher-researcher (ESCP Business School doctorate, teaching at the École Polytechnique, etc.) to design and run top-quality training courses on these subjects, drawing on inspiring speakers and cutting-edge partners such as IoT Valley.
Romain Buquet – Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at ISAE-SUPAERO

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The Engineering graduation ceremony took place on December 4th. The 2021 ISAE-SUPAERO promotion had the honor of benefiting from the presence and expert advice of: Eric Dalbies, Grand Témoin & Executive Vice President R&T and Innovation of Safran Group, Isabelle Rongier (S1988) and François Decourt (S1993), godmother and sponsor of the 2021 promotion.

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Discover the AIBT3 certificate - Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation

Discover the AIBT3 - Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation certificate at ISAE-SUPAERO! Apply for our 84-hour certificate ‘Developing and deploying effective AI technologies’. Discover an overview of Machine Learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, as well as the main concepts of Deep Learning algorithms! More information at https://www.isae-supaero.fr/fr/formations/formation-continue/les-certificats-d-etudes-specialisees/les-certificats-d-etudes-specialisees-en-digital/

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Decarbonisation of aviation: ISAE-SUPAERO launches training programme for professionals with GIFAS

This one-day training course aims to help employees in the aeronautics sector play an active and informed role in the decarbonisation of the sector. The first two sessions will be held on Thursday 3 April 2025 in Toulouse and Thursday 10 April 2025 in Paris.

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Training courses: space studies

Find out more about our courses and #information in the field of space! The space dimension is strongly developed within our various training courses, whether in specific streams or dedicated programs. French and international students alike are showing a keen interest in our educational programs in Earth observation and the sciences of the Universe, as well as in the design and operation of space systems. Space research and industry employ many ISAE-SUPAERO engineers. Explore the world of space!

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First edition of the Occitanie Talent Marketplace fair

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Kittinan, 25, Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering

We have students from all over the world, and they all have unique and different experiences on campus. Kittinan is 25 years old and comes from Thailand! He's studying in the Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering at ISAE-SUPAERO, specializing in aerospace structures. In case you didn't know, our Master of Science is an internationally recognized program and considered an innovator in science and technology! For more information on this program: https://www.isae-supaero.fr/en/academics/MSc/isae-supaero-master-s-degree-msc/

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From classroom to cockpit: flying activities at ISAE-SUPAERO

Watch a video of the school's Lasbordes Air Operations Center (COAL).

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REPLAY of the webinar on the Advanced Master®in Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation

Discover ISAE-SUPAERO's Advanced Master® program in Artificial Intelligence and Business Transformation. Catherine DUVAL, Head of Business and Professional Development, and Carlos AGUILAR MELCHOR, Professor and Head of the Advanced Master program, answer all your questions!

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Spring semester in Aerospace Engineering 2023

The SSAE program is a #short program for #international students . A full semester in English for junior and senior bachelor students in #aeronautical or #mechanicalengineering program. Click here for more information : https://www.isae-supaero.fr/en/academ...

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Meet Camille, an engineering student selected for the Young Pilots Air Tour

Camille Delesalle, 20, has just completed her first year of the General Engineering programme at ISAE-SUPAERO. She is one of 45 pilots aged 18 to 24 selected by the French Aeronautical Federation to take part in the Young Pilots Air Tour.

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ISAE-SUPAERO officially becomes an incubator

Thanks to its dynamic approach to innovation, ISAE-SUPAERO is now part of RéSO IP+ (RésO Incubateurs Pépinières +), the network of incubators and business nurseries in the Occitanie region that brings together support and accommodation structures for high-potential entrepreneurs.

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Interview with Frederico Baptista, co-founder of Zéro, a startup recently incubated by ISAE-SUPAERO

Zero, a startup created by three aerospace engineers and recently incubated by ISAE-SUPAERO, offers a visual positioning system for drones designed to operate in environments without GPS.

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The “Certificate of Advanced Studies in Human Spaceflight” offered by the Spaceflight Institute in collaboration with ISAE-SUPAERO

The Spaceflight Institute is the first institute dedicated to training in human spaceflight. In partnership with ISAE-SUPAERO, it offers an intensive training program that enables participants to gain a comprehensive understanding of the challenges of human spaceflight and to position themselves within a rapidly expanding ecosystem, marked by future lunar and Martian missions as well as the rapid emergence of commercial space stations and private initiatives in low Earth orbit.

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Bastien Fabre, from Iris Lab: “Thanks to the innovative ecosystem at ISAE-SUPAERO, we realised that creating a start-up was possible!”

Publication Date

16 July 2024

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Innovation

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Entrepreneurship

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Meeting with Bastien Fabre

You set up Iris Lab while you were still students on the engineering course at ISAE-SUPAERO. What role did the Institute play in your desire to set up your own business?

As students, we already had the idea of becoming entrepreneurs. But at first, we didn’t see ourselves doing it straight after school… And then, being immersed in the ISAE-SUPAERO innovation ecosystem, we said to ourselves that it was possible! We started thinking seriously about it during our Final Year Project (PIE). There were three of us on the project at the time. Nicolas and I were able to bring it to fruition by creating our start-up, which was initially housed at ISAE-SUPAERO’s InnovSpace. We also benefited from the Lanceur d’Étoiles scheme [see box]. Finally, we received financial support from the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation, the Alumni Association and extracurricular grants. The Institute and its ecosystems really helped us to create our start-up, and we’d like to thank them for that!

The technology you have developed is directly inspired by the knowledge you acquired at ISAE-SUPAERO. Can you explain how?

Our starting point was the observation that autonomous systems, such as logistics robots or drones, currently have very limited autonomy, and we set out to develop a wireless recharging technology. The idea came to us during our space studies at ISAE-SUPAERO, because space requires autonomous systems. We were fascinated by Space Based Solar Power, a technology that is currently the stuff of science fiction, but would enable us to harvest energy in space. Iris Lab’s project is to develop a technology for the wireless transmission of power by optical flow.

2024 seems to be the year for Iris Lab, which has been named one of Challenges magazine's "100 start-ups to invest in". How far has the start-up got in its development?

We’ve joined Agoranov, a Paris-based incubator specialising in deep tech, and are in the process of developing our second prototype. At the same time, we’re part of the Entrepreneur First S24 cohort at Station F. We want to start raising €3 million to launch pre-production with an industrial partner and finance the recruitment of engineers. The idea is to bring this pre-production model to market by 2025-2026. We have also recruited a CTO (Chief Technical Officer), Lakshman Srinivasan, who has a background in photovoltaic research, and interns. As for the award in Challenges, it was a great boost. Thanks to it, Iris Lab has gained both visibility and credibility.

What advice would you give to students who want to become entrepreneurs?

Let them try! And talk to entrepreneurs. When we were students, we got a lot of help from David Henri, the founder of Exotrail. Having the support and advice of someone who has been through the same thing and faced similar problems makes things easier!

The founders of Iris Lab

Nicolas Bourliatoux, 25: CEO (Chief Executive Officer), a graduate of the ISAE-SUPAERO 2023 engineering programme specialising in Automation; internship at Exotrail and ArianeGroup.
Bastien Fabre, 26: COO (Chief Operating Officer), a graduate of the ISAE-SUPAERO 2023 engineering programme specialising in Fluid Mechanics, with a double degree from HEC specialising in Finance.

Star Launcher, an initiative of ISAE-SUPAERO

The Lanceur d’étoiles (Star Launcher) scheme, which ISAE-SUPAERO helped to create, was publicly launched in March 2023. The aim of this consortium is to encourage the emergence and development of deep-tech start-ups in the aeronautics, space and defence sectors in the Toulouse Academy. It offers free, tailor-made support to beneficiary start-ups for a period of 3 to 18 months to boost their projects. ISAE-SUPAERO plays a major role in this, with six of the seven start-ups supported from 2022 coming from its ranks.

Food allergies and intolerances: an app to simplify daily life, developed by an ISAE-SUPAERO student, will soon be available!

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26 June 2024

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Introducing a promising start-up

Antoine, aged 22, is in his 2nd year of an engineering course at ISAE-SUPAERO, and Lazare, his partner, is studying for a Master’s degree in entrepreneurship at Panthéon Sorbonne University. Two years ago, Lazare’s sister developed severe food allergies, and her life suddenly became complicated. The two boys wanted to help her, so they looked into the tools available.

The idea germinated, and the project was born: to develop a platform enabling people with food allergies and intolerances to eat easily. The aim was to “save time, make things easier and give people the confidence to identify and diversify the products that are right for them”, explains Antoine. Another objective: “To avoid the social isolation that is a problem for these people”.

Allergenius, which is based at lSAE-SUPAERO, benefits from the Institute’s incubation programme, which includes themed workshops (entrepreneurship, marketing, communication, fund-raising assistance, sales negotiation, etc.) and specific coaching sessions (pitch training, networking, etc.).

From 2025, the start-up will be housed in the InnovSpace incubator at the heart of the ISAE-SUPAERO campus. The start-up has also been awarded a €3,500 Jeunes Pousses Entrepreneuriat 2024 grant from the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation.

3-in-1 functionalities

The platform has three functions:

a scanner to identify products that meet individual criteria;
a shopping tab so that you can do your shopping online in line with your dietary restrictions;
a community space for exchanging, sharing and cooking with people who have the same allergies.

“Today, existing applications such as Yuka, Allergobox and Jow don’t offer the full range of services we have in mind,” note Antoine and Lazare. They are advancing the development of a prototype, which should be completed in a few months’ time, and the start-up is in the process of being set up. AllerGenius is the name of this future app that says “no to restrictions, yes to solutions”.

3ᵉ prize at the regional competition for student entrepreneurs

The two co-founders have just been awarded the 3ᵉ prix CRECE 2024, which encourages the most innovative student initiatives in Occitanie. The Jeunes Pousses grant from the ISAE-SUPAERO Foundation was recently awarded to Antoine and the support provided by ISAE-SUPAERO’s InnovSpace are a bundle of encouragement and support.

Photos of the CRECE 2024 prize – startup ALLERGENIUS | ISAE-SUPAERO

"Thanks to all this, we had the opportunity to pitch our project, to meet the ecosystem of young companies, particularly at the Toulouse CCI thanks to the CRECE prize, and to benefit from support at ISAE-SUPAERO - real springboards for the future!

Entrepreneurship and Innovation at ISAE-SUPAERO

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21 May 2024

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From an Advanced Master® to an innovative start-up: an entrepreneurial success story made at ISAE-SUPAERO

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27 March 2024

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From an idea to ... an innovative service

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Start with an idea and come up with an innovative service. This is the common thread running through the projects of students in the Advanved Master® in Innovative Project Management and Entrepreneurship (MGPIE, now IEM) at ISAE-SUPAERO. This was also the genesis of ELDA TECHNOLOGY, one of the nine start-ups housed at InnovSpace, the Institute’s incubator. Charlotte Brenac, Julie Aubert and Nicolas Guibal, the three co-founders, are graduates of the Advanced Master MGPIE class of 2022.

In just two years, ELDA TECHNOLOGY has developed a unique technology for mapping the snow cover in ski areas. The aim is to optimise the production of artificial snow and minimise its environmental impact. The Alpine resort of Serre Chevalier Domaine Skiable showed an interest in the technology as soon as it was launched. As a result, the start-up is aiming for sales of €150,000 by the end of 2024, rising to €800,000 by the end of 2025.

“We felt surrounded, supported and supervised!

Evolution

During our programme, we spent a lot of time studying the needs and potential of our project with two coaches involved in our course, Elvire Prochilo and Romain Buquet. This enabled us to adjust our initial idea to meet a real need”, explains Charlotte Brenac, Operations Manager at ELDA TECHNOLOGY. The members of the group also worked well together. “We had the same interests and we complemented each other. We got caught up in our own project”, recalls Julie Aubert, who is now Sales Manager.

The result was that, although neither of them had any initial plans to found a start-up immediately after graduating, entrepreneurship became an obvious choice. “At ISAE-SUPAERO, we felt surrounded, supported and supervised. That was reassuring for us”. Charlotte Brenac has even discovered a real attraction for the entrepreneurial adventure: “I like taking on challenges, and I realised that entrepreneurship made that possible”. For Nicolas Guibal, Operations Manager at the start-up, “this experience confirmed my desire to be an entrepreneur.

A partnership with teachers-researchers

ELDA TECHNOLOGY’s integration into InnovSpace has facilitated the transition from project to start-up. And it has provided its co-founders with a network and support for their guidance, thanks to the Lanceur d’Étoiles scheme and French Tech Toulouse. As a result, they were able to carry out their end-of-studies Advanced Master® internship on the ISAE-SUPAERO campus, within their own start-up!

And their collaboration with the Institute doesn’t stop there. “Today, we are working with Thomas Oberlin and Dennis Wilson, two teachers-researchers in the Complex Systems Engineering (DISC) department, to model snowmelt using artificial intelligence”, notes Charlotte Brenac. For this project, the three graduates have also expanded their team by taking on a student from ISAE-SUPAERO, Manuel Gestal, who is currently doing an Advanced Master® in Artificial Intelligence Business Transformation (AIBT).

Find out more about MGPIE/IEM programme

The Advanced Master® in Innovative Project Management and Entrepreneurship (MS MGPIE) is an ISAE-SUPAERO programme accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (CGE) under no. 1188.

In one year, it enables young graduates with 5 years’ higher education and experienced professionals to simultaneously develop their innovative and intrapreneurial or entrepreneurial spirit, while acquiring expertise in the management of technological projects.

The programme will be taught entirely in English by the start of the 2024 academic year. MGPIE has thus become IEM: Advanced Master® Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management, and is in the process of having its accreditation renewed by the CGE.

Charlotte Brenac joined the MGPIE Advanced Masters® programme after completing a DUT in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier and an engineering degree from INSA Toulouse through an apprenticeship with Thalès Alenia Space. “MGPIE interested me in specialising in project management. It was there that I discovered entrepreneurship, which was a revelation for me”.
Julie Aubert initially wanted to be an engineer in the automotive sector. After graduating as a general engineer from EIGSI in Nantes, she turned to the MGPIE Advanced Masters® “out of an interest in project management”. “I finally discovered my taste for entrepreneurship and said to myself: why not me?
Nicolas Guibal joined the MGPIE Advanced Master® after a DUT in Mechanical Engineering from the Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier and an engineering degree in Materials Science from the Université de Technologie de Troyes, with an apprenticeship in a company in the medical sector. “I joined the MGPIE because I was interested in innovation, project management and entrepreneurship. It confirmed what I wanted to do.

Meeting with Joseph Risson, engineering student and winner of a scholarship for his Viraj H2 project

Publication Date

18 December 2023

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Innovation

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Entrepreneurship

InnovSpace

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Meeting with Joseph Risson

Joseph Risson is in his 3rd year of the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering programme, specialising in Fluid Dynamics and Aircraft Design and Operation. And he’s already at the head of an innovative start-up. A keen aeromodeller and concerned by the challenges of tomorrow’s world, he has already led a number of innovative projects during his studies aimed at decarbonising aviation. Viraj H2 is the latest. Spotted by the Lopez-Loreta Foundation in Switzerland, Joseph and his partner Paul de Goÿs have been awarded €1m to continue their research into this innovative propulsion system. We met Joseph Risson at InnovSpace, where he “spends his time” and where the start-up Viraj H2 is based.

What added value is Viraj H2 seeking to bring to the carbon-free propulsion systems already being studied in the aviation sector?

There are two main hydrogen propulsion technologies: direct combustion (turboprop/turbofan) and the fuel cell. Our aim is to combine the advantages of each of the two technologies: the power density of the turboprop and the efficiency of the fuel cell, so as to optimise the propulsion system according to the phase of flight and the mission. The second added value of this hybridisation consists in recovering the steam from the battery and injecting it into the turbine. This will reduce NOx (nitrogen oxide) emissions from the turboprop and increase the efficiency and power density of the powertrain.

What did ISAE-SUPAERO offer you in terms of training and support in developing this project?

During my studies, the theoretical courses enabled me to acquire a lot of knowledge and the technical clubs to carry out technical projects, which is a real plus! For these various projects, which led to Viraj H2, we benefited from the Institute’s research facilities. For the purchase of components, we received financial support from the BDE and the Fondation ISAE-SUPAERO. And now that we’re developing our start-up, we’re being looked after by InnovSpace, the Institute’s incubator, which provides us with accommodation and support for our development.

How will the Lopez-Loreta grant help you to bring your innovation to fruition?

It gives us the means to move from a low-power prototype to a structured research and development phase within three partner laboratories: the Laplace laboratory (Plasma and Energy Conversion Laboratory), the IMFT (Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics) and ISAE-SUPAERO. We estimate that this maturation phase will take around four years. Engineers will be recruited and two theses will be prepared. The aim is to evaluate the benefits of this propulsion system and to develop the first prototypes.

ISAE-SUPAERO officially becomes an incubator

Publication Date

11 December 2023

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Innovation

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Entrepreneurship

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Over the last few years, ISAE-SUPAERO has developed a range of services and comprehensive support for its project leaders (students, doctoral students, lecturers and alumni), which has earned it the title of incubator.

From now on, the Institute will have privileged access to all the RéSO IP+ events, to the sharing of best practices and to the expertise needed to support start-ups.

ISAE-SUPAERO will also be able to benefit from direct access to Créalia (business financing assistance), as well as its financing (without a probationary period). ISAE-SUPAERO is officially a promoter of honorary loans for its start-ups, which will accelerate their development. Créalia thus gives the Institute the authority to select, identify and direct candidates for loans of honour without further ado. Honorary loans enable start-ups to be financed under particularly advantageous conditions (zero-interest personal loan/no equity stake, etc.).

"spark the future": a new label for ISAE-SUPAERO start-ups

A guarantee of excellence and passion, the “We spark the future” label’s primary aim is to create a common identity and unite all the companies founded by the ISAE-SUPAERO community: alumni, students, teacher-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 domains.

“We spark the future”: a new label for ISAE-SUPAERO startups

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05 October 2023

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“We spark the future”: a new label for ISAE-SUPAERO startups

Publication Date

02 October 2023

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Innovation

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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.

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 TECHNOLOGY

We 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 SNAPACCESS

As "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 Dynamics

Alumni & 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”.

Elvire Prochilo, management expert & MGPIE® Advanced Master’s coach

Publication Date

24 March 2022

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