Developing your scientific and technological networks

Main objectives of the training

Understanding how social networks work, taking into account the specificities of scientific activity.

Developing one’s personal networks based on one’s scientific focus and the amount of time that can be dedicated to them.

Strengthening individual skills for key network-building moments.

Please note: this training course is not devoted to the use of social networks (Facebook, etc.); it does not use IT tools; it was designed by a think tank comprised of sociologists, consultants, public researchers from different disciplines, and managers from Safran and Sanofi R&D.

Program

• Case studies of scientific networks
• The scientific network: types of actors, relationships, issues, and risks
• Forms and performance of individual scientific networks
• Personal scientific networks/the networks of one’s laboratory/one’s manager’s networks
• Each participant performs a diagnosis of their scientific networks
• Challenging one’s perception of one’s social networks
• Integrating scientific and career dynamics
• Scientific social networks, cooperation and competition
• Targets and improvement plans (hotline follow-up for the inter-company sessions)

The trainer

He has more than 25 years of experience in managing projects of applied and fundamental research. He enjoys and excels at working across sectors, industries, and disciplines. His most recent projects include working on innovation for impact with the co-operative sector, developing a social ESG strategy for a leading asset management company, collaborating with partners in health and science on patient centric innovations, advising a raw material production organisation on supply chain sustainability, and business model innovation in the electric vehicle industry.

He was the Director of the UNSW Business Insight Institute at UNSW Business School, Sydney (UNSW is 19th in 2024 QS world Univesity ranking). Before that, He was the founder and Director of the Centre for Business and Social Innovation and co-Director of the Centre for Management and private competitive grands and contract research.

For instance, he was one of the Chief Investigators that secured UTS participation in the $40M Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre. He also was one of the Lead Partners of Laboranova, a 15M euro project on innovation and led two prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation projects.

He has more than 160 academic publications, including books, book chapters and articles in the best international, peer reviewed journals.

He has been currently an active member of IMPULSE / RIST organization for more than a decade as a specialist in scientific and innovation networks and complex negotiation.

Agenda and fees

1 200 euros HT including training materials and 1 coaching meeting per attendee (about 1 hour) Max 8 attendees

Contacts, informations et inscriptions:

elias.pisoni@impulse-groupe.fr