Training
Module 1: Eco-innovation and competitiveness in a globalizing economy
Nature of eco-innovation
Eco-innovation and entrepreneurship
Scenarios and forecasting: methods, tools, and measure
National and International regulation of eco-innovation
Module 2: Methods and tools for economic and environmental evaluation
Economic evaluation
Environmental evaluation
Evaluation of risk
Indicators and observation
Module 3: Finance and entrepreneurship
Investment finance
Venture capital
Marketing eco-innovation
Module 4: Social acceptability
Field notes: social acceptability of industry activities
Governance, mediation and the precautionary principle
Inter-cultural management
Module 5: Major scientific challenges and technologies for sustainability
Application of information technologies in eco-innovation
Renewable energy technologies
Advanced detectors
Biotechnologies
Clean and sustainable transport
Sustainable construction
Clean production and by-product treatment
Module 6: Skill Modules
Innovation Project Management
Creativity
Negotiation / Conflict Management
Integration Seminar
Internship Clinic
In addition to the six modules, plus the integration seminar and the internship clinic, you will have the opportunity to participate in:
- Intensive local language courses
- Intensive English courses
- Company site visits illustrating eco-innovation challenges and practice - experimental buildings, labs, demonstration of products.
- Direct contacts and exchanges with start-up firms associated with the CEC Advisory Program as well as with the finance and capital investment actors
- Workshops and seminars organized by local partners
- Innovation Seminar Series in which master students will benefit from visiting speakers' perspectives on innovations in general, and eco-innovations more specifically.
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