Objectifs :
Open innovation challenges organizations and implies to change our way of working by becoming more agile and focusing on interactions with the users and customers concerned. The main objectives of this seminar are to make you experience the beginning of an entrepreneurial adventure and to learn how to give birth to new innovative projects.

Programme :
Come and try the entrepreneurial adventure, alone or with your team, during this tailor-made seminar for doctoral students!

Through 3 days of intensive training, you will work as a team on projects proposed by the participants, whether or not related to their theses. To meet this challenge, we support you with:
- An introduction to Design thinking and Lean Startup : you will learn to give a lot of space to experimentation, iteration, research and understanding of customer issues;
- Access to a FabLab with the best equipment to imagine, design, design and prototype a product;
- A team of experienced trainers including designers, investors, entrepreneurs and start-ups. These innovation and entrepreneurship professionals will support you in the construction of your project, from design to prototyping.

On the last day, your team will pitch your project in front of a jury of professionals. You will present your concept through the "product-market" couple associated with a proposed business model. Would you be the most convincing team?

The first 2 days (March 31th and April 1st) will take place at the Design Spot of the Université Paris-Saclay while the 3rd day (April 2nd) will be at the WAI in Massy.

Pré-requis :
When applying for THIS TRAINING, please answer these 5 questions in your "Motivation" section: 1. What are your motivations for participating in this Doctoral Camp? 2. Do you have a specific startup project? If so, which one? 3. If you could make a discovery that would change the world in the next 20 years, what would it be? 4. What do you expect from this Doctoral Camp? 5. What do you think you can bring to the other participants?

Equipe pédagogique :
Hamida Muller, Tania di Gioia, Séverine Herlin, Pascaline Thiébaut, Vincent Créance, Clémentine Delphin

Compétences acquises à l'issue de la formation :
- Learn methodological (process) and cultural (actors, network) basis around valorisation and entrepreneurship.
- Lead a project: plan the project to achieve the objectives by integrating strategy, priorities, quality, time and budget constraints; respond effectively and appropriately to change; integrate the project into an evaluation system by putting in place appropriate mechanisms
- Develop a customer approach: use your expertise and technical knowledge to propose solutions adapted to the customer; know how to gather information on customer needs and requests
- Produce results: know how to transform an idea into innovation; quickly implement the prototyping and testing phases, integrate internal and external customers into these phases; draw conclusions from the first tests; understand the policies and processes for publishing and exploiting research or activity results in its structure.