Training entrepreneurs and encouraging the spirit of enterprise in the young students which is a major issue for France. The main objective of the training offered at ISIMA is to make the students aware that they are actors in their own future and that multiple opportunities are available to them, notably that of creating their own business to be successful professionally and to create economic growth and jobs.
ISIMA offers, in partnership with the other engineering school sin Clermont, entrepreneurship modules in first and second year. Its aim is to raise students’ awareness to the challenges of entrepreneurship, and make them understand the mechanics of the interactions, on the aspects of running a start-up and its development.
Introductory Module (First Year)
Challenges of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship skills
Creativity and innovative project idea research
Turning an idea into a business model
Methodology of project set up
Marketing, sales, financial, legal and technical aspects
Human resources aspects
Establishment of contact with key resource people, network local players and partners
Preparation of a project file by each group of students
Immersion Module (Second Year)
Presentation of the management simulator economic environment
Analysis by the students, in groups, of the strategic business elements and their competitive context
Markets and sales decisions
Financial and activity decisions
Human resource management
Management of a company in a competitive sphere during the first 5 years
Viva voce and presentation of the development strategy by each group / company
