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Research at IMT-BS : laboratories, teams and work groups
Laboratories
LITEM (Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management)
LITEM (Laboratory for Innovation, Technologies, Economy and Management) is a research laboratory focused on the management and economic sciences. Its work aims to develop insight into the dynamics of innovation as well as the functioning of markets and organizations. LITEM explores technological and social innovations, including in the digital industry, with a view to contributing to Sustainable Development Goals. Common to IMT-BS and Université Évry-Val-d’Essonne, the lab is part of the “Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société” doctoral school of Université Paris-Saclay.
LASCO (Laboratoire Sens et Compréhension du monde Contemporain)
LASCO (Laboratory for Meaning and Understanding in the Contemporary World), is a social science innovation lab that aims to be an original platform for collaboration between researchers and engineers involved in industrial innovation, digital companies and social science academia. Recognized by the IMT’s Research and Innovation Department as IdeaLab, it brings together researchers from Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, IMT Atlantique and Mines Saint-Etienne.
Work groups
- Innovation Support Lab (IS Lab) https://www.imt-bs.eu/faculte-recherche/recherche/laboratoire-recherche/
- Initiative on Data Economics, Ethics and Algorithms (Iab IDEAL )
- Innovations, Digital Technology, Social Economy (INESS Lab)
Research teams
KIND (Dynamique des Réseaux de l’Innovation et de la Connaissance – Knowledge, Innovation and Network Dynamics): The main research topics focus on information and communication technologies (ICTs), green ICTs, open source, and the production and dissemination of knowledge as well as the privacy implications linked to the massive use of data.
ETHOS (Ethique, Technologies, Humains, Organisations, Société – Ethics, Technologies, Humans, Organizations, Society): The transdisciplinary mission of the ETHOS research team is reflected in the articulation of various approaches coming from the management, human and social, political and language sciences, with a view to studying the evolution of the organizations and hypermodern societies through the many issues they raise from an ethical, social and human point of view.
SMART BIS (Smart Business Information Systems): The “3.0 organizations” are linked to the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, knowledge economy and data science. SMART BIS falls within the scope of this issue of organizational transformations through IS, and within this evolution process.
RUN (Représentations et Usages du Numérique – Representations and Uses of Digital Technology): This research team develops a critical approach to the societal challenges raised by the digital transition, with a view to emancipation, which can be seen as the ability for individuals and groups to free themselves from a state of dependency and control.
CONNECT (Consommateur Connecté dans la Société Numérique – Connected Consumer in the Digital Society): this research team works to understand the changes in consumer behavior induced by technological developments; to inform companies on how they must adapt their marketing strategy and techniques in order to remain competitive in rapidly changing markets.
Research chairs and collaboration with industry for innovation
A chair works in collaboration with sponsoring organizations such as companies, communities, institutions or associations. It develops specific teaching and research programs in areas corresponding to the School’s academic expertise, in synergy with the research fields of the Institut Mines-Telecom.
Chairs bring together excellence in research and industry support to drive social, economic and technological innovation.
Institut Mines Telecom Business has 3 research chairs: the Values and Policies of Personal Information chair, the Good in Tech chair and the Augmented Operating Room Innovation chair.
Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair (VPIP chair)
This chair aims to help companies, citizens and public authorities to reflect on the collection, use and sharing of personal data. It provides a multidisciplinary approach by bringing together economists, lawyers and researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
Good in Tech Chair
The objective of this chair is to rethink innovation and technology as drivers of a better world for and by humans. Its work focuses on these four main areas: Which measures for responsible digital innovation? How to develop responsible technologies “by design”? Reinventing the future. Governance of innovation and responsible technologies.
Augmented Operating Room Innovation Chair (BOPA)
This chair identifies issues in the surgical room and provides human and technological solutions. By modernizing the operating room from a human and technological point of view, the BOPA stakeholders intend to transform the way in which the surgical act is analyzed and learned.
The Incubator
Institut Mines-Telecom Business School stands out with the place it gives to entrepreneurship in its activities. Created in 2010, IMT Starter, the digital incubator for Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, Telecom SudParis and ENSIIE, promotes the emergence of young companies with high potential for innovation, development and job creation.
Among the incubated startups, IMT Starter has seen the emergence of companies whose services and products are definitely focused on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
This is the case, for example, of Recommerce Solutions, which offers a platform for buying and recycling used phones, or of Auticiel, which develops digital learning and independence solutions to assist people with cognitive and/or mental disabilities. Both companies were founded by IMT-BS graduates and incubated at IMT Starter.
IMT Starter also organizes educational projects and public challenges from which a number of entrepreneurial projects with positive impacts on society emerge:
- Trophée Start-up Numérique: This competition aims to identify innovative digital business creation projects that have the best potential for improving tomorrow’s world. The Sustainable Innovation category highlights innovative projects in Tech for Good, GreenTech, CleanTech, social impact, mobility, energy and EdTech.
MORFO, the winning startup of the 2021 edition, develops a unique technology that combines biological symbioses, drones and artificial intelligence towards sustainable reforestation.