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Innovation & Entrepreneurship at ISAE-SUPAERO

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At ISAE-SUPAERO, 2023 marked an acceleration in the development of entrepreneurial activity.

In addition to its role as a FabLab, the InnovSpace was transformed in 2023 into an incubator for the Institute’s first entrepreneurial projects. It can house up to eleven start-ups stemming from study or research projects and student projects from the general engineering and master’s degree in aerospace engineering programmes.

At the same time, a comprehensive process for supporting entrepreneurial projects has been defined.

As a result, ISAE-SUPAERO is now able tosupport project leaders from A to Z in the maturation and development of their innovative project (market study, technical feasibility, financial engineering, communication, marketing strategy, legal assistance, etc.).

A label has also been created to unite start-ups created by ISAE-SUPAERO students or alumni around a common identity of excellence.

We spark the future - by ISAE-SUPAERO label

The " We spark the future - by ISAE-SUPAERO " label was created in 2023.

Its purpose? To create an identity and unite all the companies founded by alumni / students and staff of ISAE-SUPAERO. It also reflects the Institute's values of excellence and passion.

This label is officially awarded to each ISAE-SUPAERO company that meets the deep tech impact / aeronautics / space / defence criteria.

A department is mainly dedicated to this activity and is involved in several areas:

  • Detecting problems to be solved to provide students and teacher-researchers with ideas, and identifying potential solutions;
  • Selecting projects with the potential to create value;
  • Supporting project leaders from the training stage
  • transforming the idea into a business, by providing personalised advice, organising talks 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.

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entrepreneurial projects and around ten deep-tech start-ups supported each year

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training courses given each year to innovative project leaders

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innovation and entrepreneurship" courses in engineering, masters and specialised masters® programmes

+ de 400

active members of our fablab, InnovSpace

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start-ups created by alumni

This entrepreneurial dynamic and the structuring of the support process have enabled ISAE-SUPAERO to be officially recognised as a regional incubator, through its acceptance into RESO IP+ by AD'OCC.

The Réseau des incubateurs et des pépinières d'Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranées, or RESO IP+, is a community of organisations responsible for providing support and accommodation for project leaders and young companies that are innovative and/or have high development potential in the Occitan region.

Thanks to this membership, the Institut now has privileged access to all RESO IP+ events, to the sharing of best practice and to thecommunity's expertise in supporting start-ups.

Membership of RESO IP+ also opens up potential opportunities for public funding and gives the Institute the power to prescribe loans for projects currently in incubation.

Mission French Tech is responsible for supporting the structuring and growth of the French start-up ecosystem, both in France and internationally, with a view to making France one of the most attractive countries in the world for start-ups looking to conquer international markets. It represents a network of thirteen French Tech capitals.

ISAE-SUPAERO's membership of the French Tech network in 2023 is a significant step forward, offering entrepreneurs the opportunity to find outlets for their products, obtain public funding, expand their networks and raise the profile of the Institute.

In 2023, 8 start-ups have been created and are currently incubated at ISAE-SUPAERO.

The aim of IDEA3 is to federate and encourage innovation through close links between DGA, the armed forces and the local economic fabric - SMEs, start-ups, laboratories and major groups.

Each theme is explained in a requirements sheet to give a better understanding of the issues involved.

  • FS46- Automate measurements, protocols and naturalist inventories in military camps in particular, in order to preserve biodiversity. Army requirement,
  • FS51 - Increase the survivability of land combatants by attracting part of the enemy's firepower to decoys of all kinds. Army requirement,
  • FS56 - Device for displaying and/or plotting on the ground data and landmarks from a large-scale digital model (up to several thousand m2). DGA requirement,
  • FS57 - Device for measuring the true temperature of a material based on its emissivity between 400°C and 2500°C. DGA requirement,
  • FS58: Detection and tracking of objects travelling between 30 and 300 km in altitude. Needed by CDE,
  • FS59: Detection, warning and characterisation of changes in attitude of LEO, MEO or GEO satellites,
  • FS60 - Low-cost jettisonable refuelling glider. Army requirement,
  • FS61 - Anti-droneprotection . Army requirement.

Aerospace Valley is Europe's leading aerospace competitiveness cluster, serving three sectors in the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions.

Aerospace Valley contributes to the development and competitiveness of its members through innovation by promoting collaborative research and development projects.

The cluster supports its members in setting up their collaborative innovation projects, an essential vector for maximising their chances of obtaining funding.

Finally, the cluster's expertise contributes to development, growth and transformation, and facilitates access to new markets.

Aerospace Valley is :

  • + 850 members,
  • + 100 events per year,
  • + 15K contacts,
  • 322 projects funded.

The " Lanceur d'Étoiles" programme was born out of the association of national and regional partners, experts in ASD (Aeronautics, Space and Defence) and in the creation of Deep tech start-ups (universities, national organisations, SATT, regional incubators and accelerators).

The group's mission is to guide and help project leaders to propel their innovative technologies through value-creating deep-tech start-ups.

Lanceur d'Étoiles is a consortium of thirteen partners from the Toulouse region:

  • Toulouse Tech Transfer
  • CNES
  • ISAE-SUPAERO
  • INP Toulouse
  • Aerospace Valley
  • IMT Mines Albi
  • Nubbo
  • University of Toulouse
  • TBS Education
  • ONERA
  • University of Toulouse III
  • INSA
  • CEA

Created in July 2022, the aim of this consortium is to encourage the emergence and development of deep-tech start-ups in the aeronautics, space and defence (ASD) sector in the Toulouse region.

Lanceur d'Étoiles offers a made-to-measure, solutions-oriented programme over 3 to 18 months, with Toulouse Tech Transfer as the single point of entry, via ad hoc monthly meetings based on needs with the various partners identified and one-off acceleration events (quarterly bootcamps) designed to encourage team building, network building and raising the profile of projects, etc.

The programme is therefore focused on the needs of entrepreneurs and is solutions-oriented, offering visibility and easy access.

The first class of the Star Launcher programme is made up of nine start-ups, six of which are from ISAE-SUPAERO.

By its very nature, this programme is an ideal complement to the support offered by InnovSpace.

Fab&Co is the association of industrial Fablabs, Markerspaces and Innovation Labs.

Theassociation brings together companies from industry, services, schools, etc.

Its ambition is to promote digital fabrication workshops, professional and industrial third places with a business vocation, and to demonstrate their value within industrial organisations.

The members of the association also form a learning community, where everyone shares their knowledge and experience with the aim of advancing common knowledge.

 

The 11th Parachute Brigade and ISAE-SUPAERO have signed a framework agreement for the development of innovative field UAVs: this charter will be broken down into specific agreements based on future research themes in the field of UAVs.

On 27 June, General Frédéric Danigo, representing the 11th Parachute Brigade (BP), and Olivier Lesbre, Director General of ISAE-SUPAERO, signed a framework agreement for the development of innovative field drones. The aim of this partnership is to establish a secure legal framework for collaboration between the two organisations. The agreement, for an initial period of 5 years, will enable various partnerships to be set up in a wide range of research areas.

ISAE-SUPAERO will ensure that this collaboration takes place through the following actions:

  • Exchanges of information that may go as far as providing a state of the art in the field of UAVs and the creation of concepts,
  • cooperativestudies and analyses
  • the production of prototypes or demonstrators,
  • joint use of facilities for prototyping, testing, trials and experiments,
  • participation in integrated team projects, for a given period of human resources on the same site, including the possible use of reservists,
  • the loan of equipment and/or demonstrator(s) by one or other establishment.

In this way, the 11th BP will benefit from ISAE-SUPAERO's expertise and facilities in UAV research, as well as from the Institute's innovation drive.

PÉPITE ÉCRIN, the regional centre for promoting and supporting student entrepreneurship, supports students in their entrepreneurial endeavours.

Pépite ÉCRIN offers support through two pathways to open students up to new opportunities, satisfy their curiosity and enable them to discover, learn about and put into practice ideas and projects around entrepreneurship.

  • PÉPITE manages the National Status of Student Entrepreneur , which enables all students to benefit from financial support, to obtain waivers from the timetable or to transform their professional training period into a period dedicated to their entrepreneurial project, or to receive support.
  • PÉPITE also assists students with the D2E, the student entrepreneur diploma, which enables students and young graduates to receive specific support for their project and regain student status, as well as grant entitlements for those concerned.
  • PÉPITE mobilises the ecosystem to support young entrepreneurs, in particular a network of entrepreneur mentors, referrers in each institution, as well as a large number of experts, partner incubators, financial players, etc.

    Please note: the PEPITE can also welcome participants in continuing education who wish to change careers through entrepreneurship.

Student entrepreneurship is also supported within the Institute by the ISAE-SUPAERO ENTREPRENEURS student association.

Its aim is to help innovative projects emerge, foster a spirit of creativity and promote networking.

In this spirit of sharing experiences, meetings between young ISAE-SUPAERO graduates who are entrepreneurs and students are encouraged through cycles of conferences, a dedicated annual event, start-up cafés, meetings with players in the world of incubation and business angels.

Start-up WE" events are also organised.

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