Our mission is to learn, unlearn and relearn entrepreneurship and innovation using research as our tool
The InvEnt Research Center supports all entrepreneurship and innovation-related research at emlyon business school.
The center counts on the active participation of researchers with various backgrounds and from a diversity of disciplines, including management, anthropology, corporate finance, economics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, etc. The three main research themes in the center, which draws together most of the research we do, are underpinned by the following questions:
Place and entrepreneurship
How does place shape people’s entrepreneurial ambition and outcomes through such pathways as place attachment, place-based categories, space, and communities?
Socio-ecological transitions
How do social enterprises support the transition to ecological communities and what are the effects of different practices that integrate social, ecological, economic sustainability on communities?
Policy, regulation, education, and new venture dynamics
How do policy and regulation, as well as educational initiatives and institutions in general, affect new venture outcomes (creation, survival, growth, exit) and innovation ecosystems?
We welcome a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, and we like research that is rigorous, relevant, and impactful. InvEnt’s mission is to act as a catalyst that supports and encourages its members to improve the quality, visibility, and impact of the research they do.