Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation

What Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation does

Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation (AEI) is a French non-profit academic association (association loi 1901) founded in 1997, headquartered at FNEGE, 2 avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris. It serves as the principal learned society for French-language entrepreneurship and innovation research, with a membership drawn from universities, business schools, Grandes Écoles, doctoral students, and public innovation-finance institutions. Governance rests on a 38-member board (permanent and alternate), led since March 2026 by President Corinne Poroli.

AEI's core products are its scholarly journal, the Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat (FNEGE-ranked at level 2), its annual rotating congress (held in Aix-en-Provence in 2025, planned for Grenoble in 2027 as the 15th edition), a doctoral consortium, thesis and pedagogical innovation awards, thematic working groups, and a webinars program. It pursues research through projects such as STEFI (€355,566.60 over three years from ANR) and a "Perspectives Africaines" dossier with Expertise France/AFD and the ESCP Business School African Innovation Chair. The association's only disclosed technology footprint is a WordPress website.

The business model is that of a French scholarly non-profit: revenue is generated primarily through individual membership fees, congress registration, and project-based grants (notably from ANR and increasingly from Bpifrance Le Lab and AFD-affiliated programs), with no disclosed pricing and no commercial product lines. There is no equity, no investor base, and no M&A optionality; the entity exists to steward and advance the field rather than to generate profit.

Name

Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation

Legal name

Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation

Website

https://entrepreneuriat.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Founded 1997, the Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation is a French non-profit learned society that publishes the FNEGE-ranked Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, runs an annual congress, doctoral consortium and thesis awards, and serves French-language entrepreneurship researchers, doctoral students and partner institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Association Services

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

akta.pro primary industry

Strategy, Consulting & General Management Institutes (EDAHAHAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

SME & Entrepreneurship Development (Trade-Linked) (BPADAMAE)

Keywords

• Academic association services
• Entrepreneurship research
• Peer-reviewed journal
• Academic conferences
• Doctoral research support

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris, Île-de-France

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: AEI operates as a membership-based association with members paying annual dues. The association maintains a fee structure for membership, referenced on their website with 'Adhésion' (membership) section.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation (AEI) is a French non-profit academic association that serves the francophone entrepreneurship and innovation research community. It offers a portfolio of knowledge-sharing and recognition services including the FNEGE-ranked academic journal Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, annual academic congresses, doctoral consortiums, thesis and pedagogical innovation prizes, thematic working groups, webinars, and the affiliated journal Revue Entreprendre & Innover.

Product overview

Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation (AEI) is a French academic association that serves as the primary professional body for entrepreneurship and innovation researchers in France. Rather than offering a unified software product, AEI provides a portfolio of knowledge-sharing and recognition services including the peer-reviewed academic journal Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat (Rank FNEGE 2), the annual AEI Congress conference, doctoral programs (Consortium doctoral, Ateliers Jeunes chercheurs), awards (Prix de thèse, Prix de l'Innovation Pédagogique), thematic working groups, webinars, and the affiliated journal Revue Entreprendre & Innover. These offerings collectively serve the academic research community in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• FNEGE Category 2 classification maintained for the Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• Expertise France (AFD)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Partnership between the revue Entreprendre & Innover and Expertise France of the French Development Agency (AFD) for the 'Perspectives Africaines' dossier. Objective is to highlight and discuss innovative and entrepreneurial practices in Africa focused on responsible development and promotion of sustainable and inclusive economy. Dossier will be published in issues from 2025 to 2027.
• Chaire Innovation Responsable en Afrique (ESCP Business School)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Collaborative partnership with ESCP Business School's Chair for Responsible Innovation in Africa, supported by multinational companies Axian and Attijariwafa Bank. Partnership focuses on the 'Perspectives Africaines' dossier in the revue Entreprendre & Innover, exploring responsible entrepreneurship and innovation on the African continent.
• AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAUF is listed as a key partner of AEI, facilitating international outreach to francophone universities and academic institutions. This partnership supports AEI's mission to develop the francophone entrepreneurship research community.
• Bpifrance Le LabmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Bpifrance Le Lab that opens new perspectives for AEI. Bpifrance is France's public investment bank supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, providing AEI with connections to the French entrepreneurial ecosystem.
• Chaire ETIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Chaire ETI (Entrepreneuriat, Transmission, Innovation) - a specialized chair focused on entrepreneurship, business transmission, and innovation research themes.
• Chaire MTIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Chaire MTI - a specialized chair addressing themes related to the chair's research focus within entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Chaire FEIDcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Chaire FEID - a specialized chair addressing themes within entrepreneurship and innovation research.
• FNEGE (Fondation Nationale pour l'Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises)majorOthersAEI's headquarters is located at FNEGE premises at 2 av. Hoche, Paris. FNEGE is the National Foundation for Management Education that oversees and supports AEI as an affiliated association. The Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat maintains FNEGE Category 2 classification under FNEGE rankings.
• CERAG, Grenoble IAE, Grenoble INP, UGAmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe 15th AEI Congress 2027 in Grenoble is organized with the support of CERAG (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche Appliquées à la Gestion), Grenoble IAE (Institut d'Administration des Entreprises), Grenoble INP (Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble), and UGA (Université Grenoble Alpes).
• PEPITEminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPEPITE sponsored the 'Best Communication Proposal' awards at the 2025 congress. PEPITE is a French national program supporting student entrepreneurship.
• Myriagone ConseilminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMyriagone Conseil co-sponsored the 'Best Communication Proposal' awards at the 2025 congress. Myriagone Conseil is a consulting firm specializing in entrepreneurship support.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Academy of Management (AOM): AOM is the dominant English-language professional association for management research, running multiple specialized divisions including Entrepreneurship (ENT). Comparable to AEI as a scholarly society that organizes annual congresses, publishes ranked journals, and supports doctoral consortiums, but at much broader scale and English-language scope.

Emerging players

• International Academy of Management (IAM): IAM is an emerging global management-research association linking scholarship across world regions, including francophone partners. Partially comparable to AEI in bridging academic associations with development-oriented research partnerships (e.g., the Africa-facing AEI partnership with AFD/ESCP).

Direct peers

• International Council for Small Business (ICSB): ICSB is a global association focused on small business and entrepreneurship research, organizing annual world congresses, supporting academic journals, and running regional chapters. Directly comparable to AEI in its focus on entrepreneurship research dissemination, though operating globally in English.
• AIMS (Association Internationale de Management Stratégique): AIMS is a francophone/European strategic management association similarly hosted in the FNEGE ecosystem, running annual congresses (with Paris-hosted editions). Comparable to AEI in operating model, geographic scope, and FNEGE-affiliated institutional backing.
• European Academy of Management (EURAM): EURAM is a European-wide scholarly association running annual conferences, doctoral workshops, and interest groups including entrepreneurship. Highly comparable to AEI in operating model (academic conferences, journals, SIGs, doctoral support) but operating at pan-European scale rather than francophone.
• European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB): ECSB is the European counterpart dedicated to entrepreneurship and small business research, hosting the RENT conference series and doctoral workshops. Mirrors AEI's role as a regional entrepreneurship-research association with conference and doctoral consortium programs.
• RENT (Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business) Conference Series: RENT is the ECSB-organized annual European research conference in entrepreneurship. Highly comparable to AEI's annual Congress in mission (presenting peer-reviewed research, doctoral workshops), but operates as a conference rather than a year-round publishing association.
• Association Française de Management (AFM): AFM is the umbrella French academic association for management research, sharing AEI's francophone academic-association model, member-based governance, annual congress, and proximity to FNEGE. AEI effectively operates as a thematic affiliate for the entrepreneurship/innovation field within the AFM ecosystem.

Regional players

• British Academy of Management (BAM): BAM is a UK-based scholarly management association running annual conferences, peer-reviewed journals, and doctoral development programs. Comparable operating model to AEI (annual congress, themed tracks, doctoral events) but focused on British and Anglophone management research rather than francophone.

Others

• Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA): ARNOVA supports nonprofit-sector research and operates annual conferences with member associations. Comparable to AEI as a scholarly association model but focused on the third-sector rather than entrepreneurship; relevant as an exemplar of academic-association governance models.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/acad%C3%A9mie-de-l-entrepreneuriat-et-de-l-innovation

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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