Circular economy and business modelingprimary
3 projects
Coordinated CE-IOT pairing circular economy with IoT, contributed to SmartShip's circular economy in maritime, and participates in SHARED GREEN DEAL's circular economy work.
Organization
MIB DEVELOPPEMENT ECOLE DES PONTS BUSINESS SCHOOL
French business school specializing in circular economy business models, IoT-sustainability integration, and socio-economic analysis of green transitions.
University business schoolsocietyFR
H2020 projects
4
As coordinator
1
Total EC funding
€699K
Unique partners
39
What they do
Their core work
Ecole des Ponts Business School is a French business school affiliated with the prestigious Ecole des Ponts ParisTech engineering university, focused on bridging business strategy with sustainability and technology challenges. Their H2020 work centers on applying business modeling, innovation management, and circular economy frameworks to technical domains — from IoT-enabled supply chains to maritime decarbonization. They bring the business and socio-economic analysis layer to research consortia, helping translate technical solutions into viable business models and assessing societal dimensions like just transitions and gender equity in the Green Deal.
Core expertise
What they specialise in
IoT and digital technology for sustainabilityprimary
2 projects
Coordinated CE-IOT integrating IoT with circular supply chains, and contributed to SmartShip's data analytics optimization platform.
Just transitions and socio-economic dimensions of climate actionemerging
1 project
Participates in SHARED GREEN DEAL, addressing social sciences and humanities perspectives on climate action, gender, mobility, and food systems.
Maritime decarbonization and emissions managementsecondary
1 project
Contributed to SmartShip's multi-layer optimization platform for vessel energy efficiency and emissions control.
Resilient and adaptive software systemssecondary
1 project
Participates in BIO-PHOENIX investigating bio-inspired approaches to complex software system recovery.
Evolution & trajectory
How they've shifted over time
Early focus
Circular economy and IoT business models
Recent focus
Just transitions and Green Deal social dimensions
Their early work (2018-2019) was firmly rooted in circular economy and IoT, focusing on business modeling for sustainable supply chains and maritime efficiency — practical, technology-oriented applications. From 2022 onward, a clear shift toward social dimensions emerged with SHARED GREEN DEAL, bringing in just transitions, gender, biodiversity, and food systems. This signals a broadening from technology-business bridge work toward socio-economic impact assessment and responsible innovation.
Moving from technology-focused business analysis toward socio-economic and policy dimensions of the green transition — a valuable profile for missions-oriented EU proposals.
Collaboration profile
How they like to work
Role: specialist_contributorReach: European19 countries collaborated
Primarily a participant (3 of 4 projects), with one coordination experience in CE-IOT. With 39 unique partners across 19 countries from just 4 projects, they join large, diverse consortia rather than leading small teams. This suggests they function as a specialized contributor — bringing business school expertise into technically-driven research groups that need socio-economic or business model analysis.
Despite only 4 projects, they have built a remarkably broad network of 39 partners across 19 countries, reflecting participation in large international consortia. Their reach spans well beyond Western Europe, consistent with the MSCA-RISE mobility scheme that connects EU and non-EU institutions.
Why partner with them
What sets them apart
As a business school embedded within an elite French engineering university ecosystem, they occupy a rare niche: translating technical research into business strategy, market analysis, and innovation management. Most H2020 business-side partners are consultancies or large firms — having an academic business school brings rigor to business modeling without commercial bias. Their combination of circular economy depth and emerging social sciences capacity makes them well-suited for Horizon Europe missions that demand both business viability and societal impact analysis.
Notable projects
Highlights from their portfolio
- CE-IOTTheir only coordinated project and largest grant (EUR 234,000), combining circular economy with IoT — a distinctive interdisciplinary framing from a business school.
- SHARED GREEN DEALMarks their strategic pivot into social sciences and humanities dimensions of climate policy, covering the full breadth of Green Deal topics from food to biodiversity.
- SmartShipDemonstrates their ability to contribute business and circular economy expertise to a highly technical maritime engineering project.
Cross-sector capabilities
environmenttransportdigitalfood
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