Training By Business

The Institut d'Optique's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Stream (Filière Innovation-Entrepreneurs (FIE)) a premier program in France for developing the next generation of tech entrepreneurs.

Through project-based learning, students in their second and third years gain practical experience in innovation. They have access to a unique ecosystem that includes a FabLab and personalized coaching in technology, business, and management

FIE students are allocated 550 hours (out of a total of 1800 hours of teaching in engineering at IOGS) over three years to develop their entrepreneurial projects.

The FIE, is:

• 20 companies created by students
• 130 awards since 2008
• A tailor-made curriculum offered on three sites
• Dazzling successes
• Profiles sought after by employers
• 11,000 m² dedicated to innovation and technological entrepreneurship in photonics
• A FabLab
• Entrepreneurial and innovation centers
• 35 hosted companies participate in training and have a mentoring, advising, and coaching mission for emerging project leaders.  
• Tailor-made technological and entrepreneurial coaching

Successes:

• STEREOLABS  used by James Cameron for the films AVATAR 2 et 3.
• EFFILUX European leader in industrial LED lighting.
• IPSELIOS crafted the dazzling Solarwind light installation, witnessed by a million people each day.
• Anaïs Barut (class of 2014), founder of DAMAE Medical,winner of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 award.

Leaflet FIE (link: Plaquette FIE)