Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Lab

The entrepreneurial support ecosystem: what comes next? – 24.05.2022

The entrepreneurial support ecosystem has successfully weathered the health crisis. This critical period accelerated certain transformations. Digital transformation has influenced support practices as well as the contours of the ecosystem. Spatial transformation is a defining feature of this period, with both the increased mobility of aspiring entrepreneurs and the development of new spaces. More broadly, the entrepreneurial ecosystem is shaped by a postmodern societal transformation, with the rise of existential values.

In this context, it is worth taking a step back to reflect, from a forward-looking perspective, on the future of entrepreneurial support. This reflection can be conducted at the macro level, by examining the schemes and actions implemented nationally; at the meso level, by addressing the question of ecosystem governance; and at the micro level, by assessing the new strategies and practices of support actors, as well as the new needs and expectations of entrepreneurs.

This is the aim of this webinar, which brings together experts from the entrepreneurial support ecosystem who are at the heart of its transformation. The goal is to open a debate on how entrepreneurial support is evolving, one that is useful to all actors in the ecosystem: entrepreneurs, support providers, consultants, trainers/researchers, funders and policymakers.

Moderator

Karim MESSEGHEM - Labex Entreprendre, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Lab
Karim MESSEGHEM is a Full Professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Montpellier. The founder of Montpellier Management and the LabEx Entreprendre, he co-directs the Jacques Coeur Chair for Entrepreneurial Support. He directs several degree programmes in entrepreneurship as well as executive education programmes for SME leaders. His research, conducted within MRM and the LabEx Entreprendre, focuses on entrepreneurial ecosystems and the entrepreneurial strategies of SMEs. He has published several books and around fifty articles in national and international journals. He is the scientific director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) for France.

Speakers

Maeva TORDO - La Boussole
Passionate about societal innovation, Maëva Tordo is a pioneer in the emergence and acceleration of initiatives that offer solutions for the future.
Co-founder of NOISE, the Nouvel Observatoire de l’Innovation Sociale et Environnementale (www.the-noise.org), she energises, connects and amplifies networks of committed European actors and strives to bring them to the widest possible audience.

An intrapreneur within the ESCP Europe Entrepreneurship Chair (www.chaireeee.eu), she is developing the Blue Factory, a European accelerator for innovative and sustainable start-ups in Paris, Madrid and Berlin (www.blue-factory.eu). Her dream: to unlock everyone’s entrepreneurial and innovative spirit, convinced as she is that the world is what we make of it and that we all have the power and the duty to invent it

Louis-Félix BINETTE - Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec (MAIN)
Louis-Félix BINETTE is a founding member of La MAIN, the Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, and co-initiator of Connexité Montréal. He founded and hosted the Montréal editions of CreativeMornings and later of F*ckup Nights. He sits on several boards, including that of the Institut du Nouveau Monde, and chairs the board of Travelling, which distributes the best Quebec short films all over the world. As part of his philanthropic activities, he can be found on stage at the Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui or in the community of Port à Piment, Haiti.
Marie-Hélène GIRBAU-GRIMOIN - IDEE/Pro’Créa

A committed champion of the entrepreneurial cause, Marie-Hélène Girbau-Grimoin has devoted most of her career to supporting and financing aspiring entrepreneurs who are starting or taking over a business. After working in banking and in the chamber of commerce network, in 2016 she founded SAS I.D.E.E. – Innovations en Développement Economique et Entrepreneuriat – to support, within networks of stakeholders, the much-needed transformation of entrepreneurial support. She thus helps support organisations to evolve their practices so that they can better adapt to the new challenges of entrepreneurship and to the new profiles and needs of aspiring entrepreneurs.

An integrator of innovative solutions and an instigator of collective and partnership-based initiatives, she designs programmes and events for private and institutional stakeholders aimed at boosting entrepreneurship in all its forms, fostering the economic development of regions and/or mobilising entrepreneurial support professionals. In 2008 she created Pro’créa, the professional congress for support organisations, which to this day remains the only congress in France dedicated to this topic. Marie-Hélène Girbau-Grimoin is a graduate of Montpellier Business School, the Institut Technique de Banque and the Cycle des Hautes Etudes pour le Développement Economique.

 

Lucas ARINI - CCI France
A former student of the Master’s in Entrepreneurial Support at Montpellier Management, where he held national student-entrepreneur status, Lucas ARINI is now Entrepreneurship Project Officer at CCI France, following an initial experience in entrepreneurial support within the General Secretariat of the Ministry for the Economy, Finance and Recovery.

Passionate about his work and keen to serve the public interest in the field of entrepreneurship, Lucas has made it his mission to spread the entrepreneurial spirit as widely as possible, so as to make people more enterprising in life in general.

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