Sophia-Antipolis
Graduate from Ecole Polytechnique (1989), PhD in Chemistry (1992). Knight of the French National Order of Merit (2010)
Expertise fields: innovation management, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, creativity, incubation, open innovation, energy transition, digital
Valérie Blanchot Courtois is the business owner of Human Ventures, a training & consulting company she created in 2004 to transform her (then) 12-year experience in innovation management - but also her deep involvement within the start-up world - into economical value for her clients. Human Ventures has developed several short or long incubation programmes whose aims are to accelerate innovation while helping people develop their own soft and technical skills on entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. She co-founded a start-up in energy transition in 2010 (Dune Solutions, energy dashboards for executives). She has been the transition CEO of GreenLeaf (start-up in domotics) since 2014. She is also a coach to several start-up founding teams. She has been an affiliated professor of SKEMA Business School since 2007 where she manages the SKEMA Cycle Innovation & Connaissance, a programme of twelve conferences/year on disruption. Valerie is also a business angel and has been investing in energy transition start-up since 2010. Prior to that, she spent 12 years (1992-2004) in Gaz de France (now Engie), in which she held various management positions both at corporate and business unit levels.
Mes compétences :
Start up
Développement durable
Management
Innovation
Open-innovation
Entrepreneurship
Incubation
Intrapreneurship
