About Innovation & Entrepreneurship

The Université de Lyon and the Université Clermont Auvergne & Associés are working together for the fifth Doctoriales event, entitled "A fresh look at innovation issues".

The Université de Lyon is partnering with the 2021 edition of the French American Innovation Day (FAID) event, led by the French Consulate-General in Houston, which will take place online on September 13, 15 and 17, 2021.

The Université de Lyon met with Safe B, the team that won the Arqus 2021 Virtual Company Creation Challenge with their connected mouthguard that helps detect concussions in rugby.

From June 1 to 30, 2021, innovation will take over the D-Factory for the summer! To mark the opening of its new facility in Saint-Étienne, the Innovation Factory is organizing a series of free innovation-based events for academic, social and economic players: a round table discussion on open innovation, mini-lectures focusing on teaching using gamification, hybrid training sessions, workshops on 3D modeling and creativity methods, guided tours of the FabLab and creative workspaces, and much more...

The Université de Lyon met with Solenne Becart, creator of Goodloop, an ecological and responsible project supported by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center.

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation – MESRI) and Bpifrance are launching the eighth edition of the PEPITE Tremplin Award for student entrepreneurship, a support scheme for innovative and creative business creation projects led by students and recent graduates..

After a week of jury rating and public voting with over 7,560? votes cast, Safe B (Université de Lyon) has won the 2021 Arqus Virtual Company Creation Challenge! The final had been programmed for the week of May 3, 2021 as part of the 2021 Arqus Academic Week.

On April 26 and 27, 2021, a group of design school students took part in a creative challenge organized by the Université de Lyon’s Innovation Factory. This challenge is part of a much larger project: rethinking the iconic red lion, the symbol of ONLYLYON, so that its design is more in keeping with the City of Lyon’s sustainable development values.

From May 3 to 9, 2021, people will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite business project among the 6 finalists proposed by Arqus universities.

The Innovation Factory (Fabrique de l'Innovation), one of the Université de Lyon’s flagship programs, has launched its very own website. The website has been designed to provide companies and social and economic players with information on the Innovation Factory’s turnkey and tailor-made offers to accelerate their innovation and boost their creativity.

Applications to join the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center’s Accelerated Young Companies program, led by the Foundation for the Université de Lyon and the Université de Lyon, are open until May 14.

On March 31, the “Female entrepreneurs: economic issues and impact” lecture will be the first in a series organized by the Lyon Saint-Étienne Entrepreneurship Center, which is led by the Université de Lyon and the Foundation for the Université de Lyon.

The Université de Lyon has joined the initiative launched by the World Trade Center Lyon to organize a student co-working day in one of the ten co-working facilities in the Part-Dieu district.

Are you a research professor at one of the Université de Lyon’s institutions in Saint-Etienne? Are you looking for ways to incorporate creativity into your teaching? Come and discover the D-Factory, the Innovation Factory’s new site in Saint-Étienne, on March 29.

PULSALYS is launching a Call for Expressions of Interest for researchers, engineers and staff from the Lyon and Saint-Étienne sites’ public research laboratories.