French entrepreneur & digital innovation expert in Singapore/APAC
Thanks to Xavier Pavie, Associate Academic Director at ESSEC Singapore, I ran a 6-week course in Design Thinking for their class of international students. The departure point was quite exciting: those students were staying in Singapore for a few months only, so they had a fresh point of view on the behaviour of the population….
The story of Njeri Chelimo is a compelling one, and a case study for the proverb “where there is a will, there is a path”. This 20 y.o Kenyan girl had planned to attend a hack school in New York a few months ago. The 12-week program was free to attend, and would be a great…
Universities are both a place for innovators to learn and grow, and sometimes an obstacle to innovation. On the one hand, companies like Google are tightly intertwined with the support from their universities, a place to grow ideas, research, patents, and to find sometimes a first driver for growth. On the other hand, many universities…
Nous entamons notre tour du monde des écosystèmes d’innovations de 10 mois à Kuala Lumpur, où se tient cette semaine du 7 octobre 2013 la 4e édition du Global Entrepreneurship Summit. L’intérêt de cet événement est triple: d’une part, il nous permet de commencer ce périple en Asie du Sud-Est, une région à la fois…