Sustainable innovation is not simply a matter of monitoring trends or attending a few workshops. It is built on methodology, data, scientific rigor… and the ability to transform hypotheses into actionable results. With Istec, you can join an existing chair or create your own research and development chair to accelerate your projects, refine your decisions, and produce deliverables directly useful to your teams.
The idea is simple:connect your field-related issues (market, customers, brand, supply chain, finance, innovation, international, HR, CSR, data/AI…) to an applied research and transfer system, mobilizing acommunity of teacher-researchers and an academic-professional ecosystem.
A chair is a structured, long-term partnership between a company (or a group of companies) and an institution, centered around a jointly defined theme, with research, dissemination, and often teaching objectives.
What this offers you, in concrete terms:
Istec Business School can mobilize a faculty of approximately 40 teacher-researchers (depending on scope and availability) to contribute to your work: scoping, research, experimentation, impact measurement, dissemination, and team training.Depending on the topic, this expertise can cover:
Finance, control, management, performance
Innovation, entrepreneurship, transformation, organization
Supply chain, operations, purchasing, sustainability
International, geopolitics, strategy
Data, AI, information systems, data governance
The key point: we position research as a tool for decision-making and transformation.
Depending on your objectives, a chair can produce:
Are you considering structuring a research and development program, creating a chair, or joining an existing program?
Our teams will support you in defining your objectives, choosing the most suitable structure, and developing concrete deliverables to support your strategic priorities.
An initial confidential discussion will allow us to assess the opportunity, clarify the scope, and identify the most relevant collaboration methods for your organization.
