Marc Gruber EPFL

Marc Gruber

Position: Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Professor Marc Gruber is Vice President for Innovation at EPFL, full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL where he holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC), and co-author of “Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering your most valuable Market Opportunities”, the latest addition to the lean startup toolset.

Marc also acted as Associate (2013-2016) and as Deputy Editor (2017-2020) at the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the highest ranked empirical research journal in the management domain. In an independent research study on the most impactful entrepreneurship scholars (Gupta et al., 2016), Marc was ranked as the worldwide #1 researcher in entrepreneurship for the 2005-2015 period (shared #1 spot), and among the worldwide top 5 for the 2000-2015 period.

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Eberhard Schächterle

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Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Betina García Nogués

Founder & UX Lead

Jackie Colburn

Product Leader. Facilitator. Design Sprinter. Experimenter. Educator. - Independent Consultant

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Daphna Glaubert

Design manager program at EPFL

Martin Sandhu

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Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Laïla von Alvensleben

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Orlane Perey

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Daniel Herrera

Product Design Engineer & Innovation Strategist at Dees Studio

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Amritha Narayanan

Product Manager at Pix4D

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Américo Alves

Consultant

Julien Guex

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Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Mike Caskey

Design Partner, Product Exploration

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Luis González

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Surya Vanka

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Başak Çevik

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Jen Jeng

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Eglé Cruchon

itoday Conference Organizer / Office & Event Manager at Design Sprint Ltd

John Elbing

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Diana Liu

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David Narr

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Alexis Moeckli

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Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

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Yves Jobin

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Arnaud Begle

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Claude-Alain Glauser

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Roy Franke

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Loraine Kiely

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Clio Rossier

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Caroline Pratte

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Michaël Ambass

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Alain Priser

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Chris Hodges

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Simone Smyth

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Cristina Famano

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Lisa Weinsberger

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Rémi Rivas

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