PIMREP
ParisTech Innovation Management Research & Education Program
Research on innovation and design has seen impressive developments and renewals over the past 20 years. Concerning education, today we see a strong demand to develop educational initiatives that take advantage of the achievements in the engineering, Masters and PhD programmes in order to make better use of scientific expertise in continuing education programmes for companies and the support systems for business creation.
The objective of the PIMREP programme is to help develop this research and the lessons on innovation management by drawing on the internationally recognised expertise of the ParisTech colleges participating in the programme, which presents four main characteristics:
- An Engineer’s vision, which involves more than technical expertise; extending to the innovative design and organisation of products and productive systems (industries, services, equipment, agrarian systems, etc.). This is manifested in particular through the organisation of advanced courses on these themes in the PhD curriculum.
- An interdisciplinary tradition that is favourable to management sciences because they require both modelling skills (mathematics of flows, decision-making, design, etc.) and skills in the study of organisations (structures and strategies of players, institutional and cultural logic, forms of growth, etc.).
- High-level international specialisations in the areas of innovation management, modelling of design and R&D activities and, more generally, the management of industrial projects.
- Permanent partnerships with companies, which encourage research that is aligned with the most recent development and growth questions
In January 2010 PIMREP organised a conference on “Innovation Training at ParisTech” and has published an official report on this theme at the beginning of 2011.
Download the official report (pdf, fr)
PIMREP has been selected in collaboration with the University of Paris Sud 11, Supélec and Centrale, to create “Student Entrepreneurship Centres” structured to promote students’ entrepreneurial interest and motivation.
