emlyon & Grenoble École de Management's Strategic Alliance

Centered on Innovation - Entrepreneurship - Growth - New Business, the Alliance combines the academic excellence of both schools; their high-level of internationalization, GEM’s expertise in « Management of Technology – Innovation » and the « Entrepreneurship – New Business » expertise of emlyon business school.

This Alliance aims to:

Generate further academic value:

• By boosting growth, quality and academic innovations;
• By establishing a world-class faculty;
• Generate further societal value :
• By reinforcing the impact of both Business Schools on the business development of the Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Region (2nd region in France and 7th in Europe in term of economic activity);
• By establishing within the Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Region a global innovative center in entrepreneurship, employment and activities, particularly linked to new business models.

- Generate further economic value by building an efficient and sustainable economic model.

The first steps of this Alliance will be to join forces:

=> From September 2016

• Pooling of faculty expertise;
• Development of a common strategy and organization of research;
• Pooling of R&D in innovation and pedagogy engineering ;
• Gathering PhD programs;
• Gathering DBA programs;
• Optimization of the relationship with companies;
• Joint international development of two major events for both schools – the Geopolitics Festival and the Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum;
• Creation of an innovation-entrepreneurship foundation.

The second steps of this Alliance will be about the expansion and optimization of invested resources:

=> From September 2017

• Coordinated recruitment of faculty members;
• Harmonization and optimization of programs’ portfolios;
• Improvement of career support;
• Joint international development.

Schedule:

• Tuesday 29th March 2016: Press announcement of the new Alliance
• September 2016: First step of actions to be put in place and presentation of the strategic platform