About Innovation & Entrepreneurship

The Université de Lyon provides several programs that aim to help strengthen entrepreneurship and innovation in Lyon and Saint-Étienne:

The PEPITE Beelys, (Student Center for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship), to support students in projects setting up or taking over companies;
The Innovation Factory, to use the university's talents in the creation of startups and local companies;
The SATT PULSALYS (Technology Transfer Acceleration Office), to develop research findings at the Université de Lyon and to promote their transfer to socio-economic sectors.
Doctor'Entreprise, a practical scheme, run by the Université de Lyon and the MEDEF Lyon-Rhône, that brings together companies, research laboratories and PhD students.
The Innovation Academy, a "learning-by-doing" training program for PhD students to develop innovative projects.

Figures

25,000 students have been trained and educated by Beelys
300 students and young graduates have been supported and trained by the D2E diploma
2 Innovation Pre-Factories
449 discovered inventions, 105 of which were projects funded by PULSALYS
118 patents filed by PULSALYS