Dr. Etienne KRIEGER

Dr. Etienne KRIEGER: is co-founder and CEO of NAVIDIS, a start-up company providing map-based multimedia communication systems and business intelligence tools. His previous executive position was Chief Financial Officer of ITIPI, a company providing Web site performance testing and measurement.

Prior to starting his business activities, Dr Krieger was the Director of the HEC Start-Up Institute and co-founder of the Challenge+ program at France's prestigious business school, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC). In this capacity, Mr. Krieger has developed and taught a number of programs on innovation and entrepreneurship and advised numerous advanced technology start-ups. He also had the opportunity to participate to various international meetings on innovations, notably the High Technology Small Firms Conference (The Netherlands, 1996), the International Conference on Small Business (San Francisco, 1997) and the National Summit on Innovation (Malaysia, 2004).

Dr. KRIEGER is co-founder and President of the Challenge+ alumni association and a former member of the regional advisory board of ANVAR, the French National Agency for Innovation– and member of several committees selecting high tech new ventures. His is also co-founder of the French Academy of Entrepreneurship and of the “Club de l’Hyper-République”.

He has been consulted several times by the French Ministry of Research about various mechanisms intended to favour innovation in small companies: incubators, tax rebates, grants, specific training programs, business angels’ networks... Etienne Krieger is a graduate of HEC business school and he holds a PhD in management from Paris Dauphine University.

Publications & communications:

• Arlotto, J. & Krieger E. (2005), Retour d’expérience sur 2 initiatives de formation-action destinées aux entrepreneurs et aux innovateurs, 3ème Conférence Internationale de Finance, 3-5 Mars 2005, Tunisie.
• Krieger, E. & Medjad K. (2004), Le contribuable, premier capital-risqueur de France, Les Echos, Supplément 'L'Art du Management', Hiver 2004-2005 (à paraître).
• Krieger, E. (2004), The Role of Government and Industry in the French Innovation System, Paper presented at the Malaysian National Summit on Innovation, Kuala Lumpur, 29-30 April 2004.
• Krieger, E. (2001), L'influence respective de la confiance et des approches instrumentales dans l'évaluation des nouvelles entreprises: une application aux professionnels du capital-investissement, Thèse de Sciences de Gestion, Université Paris IX Dauphine (312 pages).
• Krieger, E. (2001), Créer et financer une start-up: constat et recommandations, Revue Télécom, N°126, Printemps - été 2001, pp. 6-12.
• Azoulay, H., Krieger E. & Poullain G. (2000), De l'entreprise traditionnelle à la start-up : les nouveaux modèles de développement, Editions d'Organisation (306 pages).
• Alix, J.P. & Krieger, E. (1999), La confiance: clé de voûte des réseaux d'innovation, Revue Française de Géoéconomie, N°8, pp. 125-138, Hiver 1998-1999.
• Krieger, E. (1998), Trust and management: as applied to innovative small companies, In During W.E. & Oakey R.P., 'New Technology-Based Firms in the 1990s', vol. 4:125-139.
• Krieger, E. & Medjad K. (1997), Financement de l'innovation : les solutions informelles, Les Echos, Supplément 'L'Art d'Entreprendre', 3 octobre 1997.
• Krieger, E. (1997), Financing new ventures: a question of trust? A preliminary research on a major factor affecting the growth of small companies, 42nd ICSB Conference, 21-24 June 1997, San Francisco.
• Krieger, E. (1996), Trust and Management: an application to innovative small companies, High Technology Small Firms Conference, Enschede (The Netherlands).