Companies & Partnerships
Building tomorrow's technology with the companies shaping it today
Technology has become a strategic issue for all organizations. It is no longer just an industry sector, but an essential infrastructure. Yet companies still struggle to recruit professionals who can understand technologies, engage effectively with experts, and turn that understanding into decisions, sustainable projects, and value creation.
To address this need, emlyon tech school was created. Neither an engineering school nor a traditional business school, emlyon tech school trains a new generation of Tech Makers: professionals capable of bridging science, technology, business, and transformation to turn technological advances into practical, real-world solutions.
Built in collaboration with companies, startups, scale-ups, technology players, industrial organizations, consulting firms, and large corporations, emlyon tech school helps foster a unique ecosystem where innovation, experimentation, and learning come together.
A School designed for a tech-centric world
While engineering schools primarily train technical experts and business schools focus mainly on management skills, emlyon tech school has been designed from the ground up to combine:
- Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
- Business and management
- Social sciences and humanities
- Experiential learning through real-world projects conducted with companies
Our ambition is to develop a new generation of decision-makers capable of understanding complex systems and transforming technology into tangible impact for organizations.
Why do companies choose emlyon tech school?
Technology is transforming organizations at an unprecedented pace. Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, cybersecurity, and energy systems are becoming strategic priorities for businesses across all sectors.
By partnering with emlyon tech school, your organization can:
- Explore emerging technologies, their impacts, and practical applications
- Rapidly test ideas, prototypes, and use cases
- Contribute to the education of future Tech Makers
- Strengthen your visibility and employer brand among tomorrow's talent
- Identify future professionals who combine technological, business, and social science expertise
- Join a unique ecosystem dedicated to innovation and technological foresight and reflection
Signature formats: projects designed to adress your innovation challenges
Partner companies can leverage several collaboration formats through student-led projects, each designed to meet a specific need: exploring a technology, testing an idea, accelerating strategic thinking, or tackling a high-impact transformation challenge.
Become a partner: multiple ways to engage
Whatever their size or industry, companies can engage with the emlyon tech school ecosystem at different levels. Each partnership combines, depending on the selected tier, student projects, visibility, expertise sharing, talent recruitment, and participation in shaping the skills of tomorrow.
The "Sponsor" package gives companies the opportunity to discover emlyon tech school through a flagship format centered around a real-world technology challenge.
What’s included
- Sponsorship of a signature format of your choice
- Support in defining and framing a real business challenge
- A dedicated team of students assigned to solving your challenge
The added value for your company
- Explore an emerging technology or use case
- Quickly test an idea or hypothesis
- Gain fresh external perspectives on a technological challenge
Design Partners actively contribute to the life of emlyon tech school and help develop the technological skills required by tomorrow’s organizations.
Included:
- Access to one signature format
- Contributions to student learning (courses, guest lectures, experience sharing, etc.)
- Access to selected emlyon tech school courses and events
- Participation in the emlyon tech school ecosystem
Value for the company:
- Access the projects and signature formats developed by emlyon tech school
- Enhance visibility on strategic technology topics
- Upskill employees and teams
- Engage with a community of students, faculty members, and experts
Design Partner Founders support the creation and growth of emlyon tech school. They contribute to strategic thinking and help shape the skills that will define tomorrow’s organizations.
Included:
- A long-term strategic partnership
- Access to multiple signature formats each year
- Participation in key school events
- Involvement in selected educational and curriculum discussions
- Contribution to the selection and mentoring of students
Value for the company:
- Help define the skills of the future
- Contribute to building a new generation of Tech Makers
- Receive priority access to projects, students, and initiatives from emlyon tech school
- Strengthen positioning as a leading player in technological transformation
- Join the circle of founding companies of emlyon tech school
Tech Monitoring
Anticipating the technologies reshaping an industry
The Tech Monitoring project helps companies identify emerging technologies that could impact their business. Students conduct research and analyze technology maturity, applications, and potential to assess opportunities and risks, providing insights that support strategic decision-making.
Prototype Sprint
Rapid prototyping for real-world challenges
During the Prototype Sprint, students work in teams on a challenge proposed by a partner company. Their goal is to develop a prototype and an initial demonstration within just a few days. They rapidly design, build, and test potential solutions, delivering tangible prototypes, concepts, or recommendations. This enables companies to explore a topic quickly and validate their ideas through an accelerated project cycle.
Tech to Market
Turning technology into market opportunities
This format explores the applications, positioning, and commercial potential of a technology to help bring it to market faster.
Starting from an existing technology, students investigate potential use cases, user needs, and business opportunities, and define its market positioning. The goal is to identify the best conditions for its adoption and successful commercialization
Capstone Project
Exploring complex technological transformations
The Capstone Project is the most comprehensive project format and engages students in addressing a high-impact transformation challenge.
Over an extended period, students analyze the technical, organizational, and business dimensions of the issue and develop well-supported transformation scenarios and recommendations.
Resonance Report
Understanding the impact of technology
This research-focused project examines the organizational, economic, social, and human impacts of technological systems that are being designed or deployed.
Its objective is to provide companies with a broader perspective that complements purely technical approaches, helping them better understand the wider implications of technological change.
Our partners
These companies, already partners of emlyon tech school, share a common conviction: understanding and mastering technological change is now a strategic imperative. They help drive the school's ecosystem and play an active role in shaping the next generation of tech leaders.
