Business Incubator

Entrepreneurship at TELECOM Lille1

Creating an information and communication technologies company is one of the projects that any current student, graduate, researcher or innovative project developer from any background can aspire to, with the help of TELECOM Lille1.

Objectives

Developing an entrepreneurial culture among students, doctoral candidates and instructor-researchers to encourage entrepreneurial actions
Providing the fundamental knowledge essential to setting up a long-lasting project
Assisting anyone with an innovative project in the area of information and communication technologies to help give an idea structure so that it can become a sustainable project
Transferring the research results to innovative economic activity
Making a contribution to regional economic development
Giving projects a national or international dimension

Teaching

The actions introduced cover all the actions focused on entrepreneurship: awareness-raising, training, start-up assistance and finally the implementation of scientific cooperations necessary for innovation.

Depending on the scenario, these involve teaching actions that are part of the engineering curriculum or specific dedicated measures.

Individualised guidance

At TELECOM Lille1, all project initiators can get advice, support, scientific cooperation, and technical cooperation through internships and technological projects.

They set up their own businesses

Since the school's creation, nearly 20 successful and innovative companies have been created by its graduates

Some examples of businesses that have been created:

Company	Description
	Founded by Anthony Roux, Camille Chafer (Fi 2000) and Emmanuel Darras (Fi 2000) in Roubaix in 2001, ANKAMA is an independent digital creation group with over 250 employees. Thanks to the international success of its MMORPG DOFUS, having over 7 million players, ANKAMA is positioned in a variety of sectors: online games, publishing, animation, website design, press, services for mobile phones, video games for latest-generation consoles. ANKAMA has developed Wakfu, a cross-media project featuring animated drawings/video games/card games and comic strips. www.ankama-group.com
	Acipia is a computer services company created in 2004 by Pierre Laden (FI 04) and Sven Marquilly (FI 03). It provides businesses and administrations with a complete range of development assistance services for information systems which ranges from design to training. www.acipia.fr
	Tehms is a company created in 2007 by Ingrid Battistetti (FA 04) and Frédéric Eeckhout (fi 06). It provides companies with tailored skills management support: advice, methodology, innovative software suite. www.Tehms.com
	3Dduo is a community Game Agency created in 2007 by Maxence Devoghelaere (FI 07) & Sacha Stepanian (FI 07). 3Dduo offers interactive 3D web communication solutions fostering the creation of communities of consumers. www.3dduo.fr

A network of partners

Depending on the project, future entrepreneurs, with TELECOM Lille1's help, can get the resources they need at regional, national and international level.

These resources include hosting, financing and consulting solutions.

CRE’INNOV

TELECOM & Management SudParis

http://www.it-sudparis.eu/

Master Entrepreneuriat et Management de l'Innovation de l'IAE de Lille1

http://www.iae.univ-lille1.fr/

L'Institut Mines-Télécom

http://www.mines-telecom.fr

Oséo

http://www.oseo.fr/

MITI-Incubateur

http://www.miti.fr/