Emlyon's Incubator Can Help You Build Your New Business Idea

Discover start-up camps at emlyon business school. Applications for the next start-up camp opened April 1.

This article is translated, and edited, from the original French.

The incubator at emlyon business school is a unique offering that fosters an entrepreneurial spirit among our students.

The incubator supports and strengthens the creation and development of businesses by supporting entrepreneurs who are focused on success and sustainability. The support offered is unique, personalized, human-oriented, and open to any student with an ambitious project.

Whatever your background, the incubator can help you build the specific skills needed to develop your start-up. Embed yourself in a strong network of more than 150 mentors and entrepreneurs with a wealth of expertise, experience, and know-how.

Find the help you need, get advice, interact with peers, get the right feedback — take an entrepreneurial stance and pursue your vision.

You can read more about the incubator, and the team, on the emlyon website.

6 reasons to explore the incubator

1. 1. Accompaniment: Make the right decisions through high-level coaching by mentors, professors, and experts.
2. 2. Connection: The emlyon business school incubator connection platform accelerates access to key players: customers, partners, business angels, investors, and bankers.
3. 3. Community: Grow with your peer entrepreneurs, sharing experiences and networks, to develop your project.
4. 4. Visibility: Gain visibility and with the strength of the brand and the emlyon business school network.
5. 5. Inspiration: Subscribe to the 'makers' mindset and soak up on our entrepreneurial expertise.
6. 6. Challenge: Challenge your project by experienced experts and entrepreneurs and by various diverse business school audiences.

Start-up camp

Applications for the next start-up camp opened on April 1! Start-up camp is a short, intensive program that aims to test and study the feasibility of an entrepreneurial project — and the ability of the project holder to carry it out.

Start-up camp is a 15-day bootcamp on the Lyon campus that takes place over the course of three months. Start-up camp is face-to-face, in French, with an oral presentation and individual interview at the conclusion. The goals of start-up camp include:

• Learning basic entrepreneurial knowledge and skills
• Testing, challenging, adjusting, and validating the business idea
• Building solid foundations for the development of the entrepreneurial project
• Making direct use of these lessons on the project with successive iterations and the gradual development of a business model and strategy.

Interested in taking part in the next start-up camp? Fill out this form to register your interest. Have questions? Reach out via email to Christel Huber, at [email protected].

Start-up camp feedback from participants

Here's what participants in previous start-up camps had to say about their experiences:

"'You are not born an entrepreneur, you become one.' With the start-up camp program, this expression takes on its full meaning! The training judiciously combines theory and practice through high-quality speakers, all experts in their fields. Experimentation is in the spotlight, allowing us to readjust all facets of our project, until we obtain a viable business to launch and/or finance.

It's a real pleasure to develop your project as much as your entrepreneurial skills!

A big thank you to the entire emlyon incubator team who, in addition to effective organization/facilitation, knew how to listen, be available and caring."

--Amina Grine, founder, ICOSIUM

The start-up camp allowed us to understand a new universe and got us started. We worked, exchanged, doubted, then started again... but above all learned a lot; hearts up! Many thanks to the team and speakers for the organization and quality of boot camps, and your encouragement. In short, an intense but accessible program to highly recommend to challenge the implementation of your entrepreneurial project."

--Hervé Gilquin, project leader

The supports at emlyon's incubator don't end there. Continue exploring the incubator website to find info on professional mentoring in Lyon or Paris, the entrepreneur academy, and resources to help you build your next great business idea.