Entrepreneurship and Innovative Projects - 264 - Master's Year 2

Would you like to contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem (financing, support, management, etc.), take over or create your own company? This course is ideal for those who want to start their own business, or who aspire to support entrepreneurs (C-Level functions or managers of support programs and third-party innovation centers), give impetus to new projects, accompany them and contribute to a committed and sustainable economic system. This course is not just for those who want to set up their own business in the short or medium term. The entrepreneurial ecosystem is extremely dynamic and in need of experts on key entrepreneurial issues (incubation, acceleration, intrapreneurship, financing, operations management, business model regeneration, etc.).
Business start-ups are a major factor in economic dynamism, but also a lever for action to meet societal challenges. Our training places particular emphasis on integrating the principles of sustainable development and societal impact into an entrepreneurial project, preparing our graduates to create, develop or support responsible businesses that contribute to meeting environmental and social challenges.

The aim of this pathway is to provide students with the tools, techniques, methods and approaches essential to the entrepreneurial act or to supporting the creation of a business. The Entrepreneurship and Innovative Projects program offers original training in the entrepreneurial approach and management of innovative projects in all their dimensions and in a variety of contexts (social enterprise, family business, transfer and takeover, start-up, intrapreneurship, etc.). The program is supported by a top-notch teaching team (academic lecturers, entrepreneurs, professional experts) and develops an active teaching approach, in collaboration with socio-economic partners. In particular, innovative design and support missions are carried out alongside project leaders.

Program objectives:

• Develop expertise in managing innovative projects
• Develop the ability to be agile, to ideate, and to design innovatively
• Identify and exploit new sustainable business opportunities
• Have a firm grasp of business development
• Manage the project lifecycle (initiation, scaling, transfer, etc.)
• Know how to design classic and socially innovative business models
• Building support and mobilizing stakeholders around a project
  

Our advantages :

• Training in the specific expertise of social entrepreneurship
• Networking with the entrepreneurial ecosystem (professional conferences, visits to companies or third-party sites, challenges, startup weekends, major events in the IDF, etc.).
• Opportunity to develop a business creation project during the Master's year, particularly during the internship period for student-entrepreneurs (see the PEPITE PSL website for information on obtaining the National Student Entrepreneur Status).
• Numerous schemes and programs within Dauphine and PSL University to support entrepreneurial initiatives and career plans in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: workshops, pre-incubation (House of entrepreneurship), seed (PEPITE) and incubation (Dauphine incubator) programs, mentoring program with Dauphine Alumni, recognition of student-entrepreneur commitment, etc.