Education
1981 : Master of Science in Technology (CESI, LYON)
1989 : Master of Science in Management, University Jean Moulin, LYON
1992 : Degree of European Engineer
1992 : Master of Science in Management Research, University Jean Moulin, LYON
1996 : Ph.D. in Management Sciences, LYON (topic: Contribution to a study on entrepreneurial behaviours of French engineers)
2000 : Habilitation in Management Research Supervisory Activities, University Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble.
Experiences
- 1991 to 2001 Group ESC Lyon (later EM LYON)
Deputy director of the Centre of entrepreneurs, Professor of entrepreneurship and strategic management
- 1991-1995 Saint-Etienne Business School, France, Professor in charge of the Strategic Management
- From 2000 onwards ESISAR - Engineering School of Valence and INP Grenoble, France
Associate Professor in Management Sciences
Director of the Research Unit Entrepreneurship and Process of Innovation
- From 2002 onwards CERAG Research Unit of Social Sciences University of Grenoble and C.N.R.S., France, Research Fellow
- From 2004 onwards EM LYON, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management
Head of the Entrepreneurship Research Centre
Pedagogical activities
Undergraduate students
" Head teacher of strategic management programme (300 hours' programme) designed for Master's students of the Business School of Saint-Etienne (from 1992 to 1995).
" Teacher in charge of management courses for engineering students of the ISTP (Institut Supérieur des Techniques Productiques) of Saint-Etienne (from 1992 to 1996).
" Teacher in charge of a seminar on strategic management designed for Master's students of the Ecole des Mines of Saint-Etienne (from 1993 to 2000).
" Teacher in charge of a seminar on acquiring existing businesses, designed for Engineer students in the option Industrial Management (3rd year) of Ecole des Mines of Saint-Etienne (from 1995 to 2000).
" Designer and teacher in charge of a teaching programme on management of innovation for Engineer students in their second year of Ecole des Mines of Saint-Etienne (from 1995 to 1999).
" Teacher in charge of a course on entrepreneurship for Master's students of the EM Lyon Business School (from 1994 to 2000).
" Teacher in charge of a course on corporate entrepreneurship for Master's students of EM Lyon Business School (from 1995 to 2001).
" Teacher in charge of a basic course on entrepreneurship designed for all the Engineer students in their second year of the EM Lyon Business School (1999 and 2000).
" Teacher of a basic course on business management and strategic management designed for the Master's students of the EM Lyon Business School (1998-2000).
" Teacher in charge of a course on strategies and business start-up designed for all the Engineer students in their third (last) year of the INPG ESISAR (2000-).
" Teacher in charge of optional courses on business start-up, acquiring existing businesses and business diagnostics designed for all the Engineer students of INPG ESISAR (2001-).
" Teacher in charge of a introductory course on finances and business administration designed for Engineer students in their second year at ESISAR, ENSIMAG and INPG Telecommunications sections (2000-).
" Teacher in charge of a course on budget accounting designed for Engineer students in their first year of INPG ESISAR (2001-).
Graduate students
" Head supervisor responsible for planning of graduate studies of Rhône-Alpes under the authority of Claude Bernard University of Lyon I (1998, 1999, 2000).
" Teacher in charge of a three days' introductory seminar designed for all the students with Masters from EM Lyon (1995-2001).
" Teacher in charge of an English seminar on business types designed for students of the MBA programme of EM Lyon (1995-2000).
" Teacher in charge of a four days' seminar with a global approach, " Penser l'entreprise Globalement (Global business thinking)", designed for students of the MBA programme of EM Lyon (1996-2001). This programme is carried out in both French and English employing about 10 teachers of the school. An adjusted version of the programme is given, since 1998, to the managerial staff of continuing education.
" Teacher in charge of a licentiate seminar on entrepreneurial behaviour and strategies designed for graduate students of a programme co-organised by the University of Lyon II and EM Lyon (1999-2001).
" Teacher in charge of a licentiate seminar on entrepreneurship, designed for graduate students of a programme co-organised by University of Lyon III and EM Lyon (1999-2002).
" Teacher of licentiate students in management of the Pierre Mendès University, Grenoble, France.
" Teacher in charge of a start-up seminar designed for graduate students of INPG (2001-).
" Teacher in charge of a three days' seminar, " Passerelles pour l'innovation (Innovation paths)", designed for graduate students of Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble (2002-).
Executive education
" Design and carrying out of a tailored training programme at Saint-Etienne Business School in the domains of management control and financial management designed for the operational managerial staff of the group SAGEM (1994).
" Head of a continuing training programme at EM Lyon, of 200 hours, on operational start-up, designed for reorienting managerial staff (1993-2000).
" Teacher in charge and head of tailored education programmes at EM Lyon, in the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy, in France (EDF, Air-France, Renault) or abroad (Daimler Benz Aerospace)
" Running seminars on strategic management for managerial staff (Association GERME - 2001 and 2002).
Publications & Research
Main research activities
Finalised or on-going projects in the chronological order.
" Exploratory research on social determinants of entrepreneurial behaviours among French Engineers. Following a profound bibliographic analysis, the research itself consisted of a qualitative case study based on a sample of 20 cases of Engineers entrepreneurs (1991-1992).
" Research identifying the element of influence (positive or negative) on Engineer's entrepreneurial interest. This work, integrated in my PhD work, is based on source material provided by l'INSEE (The French National Scientific Research Centre) concerning 35.000 Engineers, out of which 6% are entrepreneurs. I also carried out my own interviews on a sample of 700 Engineers, out of which about 200 were entrepreneurs (1992-1996).
" Research on what made the Engineers to undertake business activities. Identification and characterisation of different profiles of entrepreneur-engineers. Correlation between the profiles and perceived entrepreneurial behaviour, as well as study on company forms (1992-1996).
" Research on the differences and similarities between entrepreneurial behavioural structures and situations and characteristics of innovating and technological companies. On-going partnerships with European Universities of Technology, mainly with Eindhoven and Darmstadt. A French-Tunisian research programme started-up between l'ENIT and the University of Tunis (2003 - ).
" Research on Education and entrepreneurship in France : providing information about operators, policies and programmes, allocated resources, pedagogic approaches and the effects on the socio-economic level (1998-).
" Research on the processes of start-up of technological and innovating enterprises. This work aims at defining the subject of entrepreneurship in a new way and developing our own methodology and instruments of observation of entrepreneurial processes (1999-). Founding technological and innovative enterprises constitutes a special form of entrepreneurship. I kept it as the main source of study because of the high degree of change that such a new invention implies on the level of an individual undertaker (mostly Engineer) and on the level of the milieus in question. For the purposes of this project, I have set up a research group, EPI (Entrepreneurship and innovative processes), a partnership between UPMF and INPG. The team works under the authority of CERAG (UMR / CNRS) and the project has been incorporated in the four-year plans of two institutes for the period of 2003-2006. EPI just got the label of Equipe de Recherche Technologique (ERT (=Technological Research Team) from the French Ministry of Research.
" Research on emergence and development factors for biotechnological start-ups in four European regions, in partnership with two research centres, with Belgian university researchers (2004 - ).
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Other information
Academic and scientific activities
PhD Thesis Supervision and Jury Member
Main scientific activities
" Member of CERAG, CNRS UMR 5820, research laboratory specialised in Management of UPMF, since January 2002.
" Founder (in 2001) and at the head a technological research team (ERT) on processes of creation of innovative activities, EPI, scientifically dependent on CERAG and under the authority of UPMF and INPG (www.epi-entrepreneurship.com).
" Member of the scientific committee of EM Lyon since 2000.
" Director of Research at University of Lyon III, since 2000.
" Director of Research at the University Pierre Mendès France of Grenoble, since 2002.
" Chairman of the Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat (French association of teachers and researchers in entrepreneurship), since November 2003. Vice-Chairman from 1999 to 2003.
" Member of scientific committees of international journals : Journal of Enterprising Culture, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Zeitschrift für KMU & Entrepreneurship (ZfKE).
" Regional Editor (Europe) and member of scientific committee for International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business.
" Member of international scientific committee for the conference IntEnt (Internationalising Entrepreneurship Education and Teaching), since 2002.
" Member of the scientific committee of the French journals, Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat and the Revue Internationale PME.
" Member for evaluating committees for French and international revues : Journal of Enterprising Culture, Journal of Business Venturing, Organisation studies, Revue Internationale PME, Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, Gestion 2000, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management International, Revue Française de Gestion.
" Member of scientific committees of the congresses of AIMS (2001, 2002), of
" Co-chairman (with Elisabeth Chell and Hamid Bouchikhi) of the Entrepreneurship track of the conference EGOS 2001, organised by the Universities of Lyon II, Lyon III and EM Lyon.
" Chairman of the First European Summer University organised at INPG, from 18 to 22 September 2002, on the theme : " Entrepreneurship research in Europe : particularities and perspectives " (This gathering of 60 European researchers).
" Conference Chair of the 13th IntEnt-Conference (Internationalising Entrepreneurship Education and Teaching) organised in Grenoble from 7 to 10 September 2003.
Main expert positions
" Scientific expert for the Research and Technologic Department of the Regional Council of the Nord-Pas-de Calais region, solicited to deliver a scientific expertise on a research programme on entrepreneurship and including several regional university laboratories. Member of the scientific international committee evaluating the programme (since 2001).
" Member of the committee and scientific expert, since 2001, of the Observatory of Entrepreneurial Pedagogical Practices (OPPE). The OPPE is a national organisation founded by the French ministries of Economy, Finances and Industry, Research and National Education.
" French expert in the services of the European Commission, appointed by the Ministry of Economy, Finances and Industry, to participate in a project evaluating educational practices and entrepreneurial education (2001-2004).
Publications
Ouvrage(s)
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Devenir Entrepreneur, Des Enjeux aux Outils
Alain Fayolle
Pour les auteurs, être entrepreneur représente à la fois un état d'esprit, que l'on peut acquérir, et un enjeu de société. Aujourd'hui, entreprendre ne signifie plus uniquement créer son entreprise ex-nihilo. En effet, on trouve différentes façon d'entreprendre : entreprendre pour son propre compte, entreprendre pour le compte d'une entreprise (" intraprendre ") et entreprendre pour le compte de la société (par exemple dans le cadre d'une association). La réflexion sur l'entrepreneuriat est donc menée à trois niveaux : individu, organisation, société. Or, quelle que soit la démarche dans laquelle on s'engage, devenir entrepreneur nécessite une réflexion préalable et l'acquisition de certains outils. Ce sont ces deux aspects qui sont ici développés, dans une approche globale de l'entrepreneuriat. La structure du livre est progressive, les auteurs prenant pour point de départ les situations entrepreneuriales courantes avant de proposer des outils concrets telles que des méthodes d'identi
Editions Village Mondial / Pearson, Mars 2006