Innova Europe: a competition gathering nine European HEI's to select high-impact start-ups

The second edition of Innova Europe, a competition dedicated to high-impact start-ups, is held on 26/09/2024 in Paris, on the premises of Station F, a start-up campus, under the aegis of Edhec Business School, says the French school. The competition is the fruit of cooperation with Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and ESMT Berlin (Germany).

After the first edition in Milan, which brought together teams from the three founding schools, the 2024 competition is expanding its cast to include other European schools: Aalto University (Finland), UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School (Ireland), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Kozminski University (Pologne), IE Business School (Espagne), and Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine).

To choose their partner higher education institutions, the founding schools and universities identify those that share similar values.

"We believe that there is a European way of doing business that is different from other models", Ludovic Cailluet, Director of Edhec's Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship, tells News Tank on 25/09/2024. "Many people from all over the…