The ERPI (Research team on innovation process) is one of the University of Lorraine research labs. It is labeled as such by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. ERPI is a founding member of the Jacques Villermaux Federation and linked to the EMPP scientific axis. ERPI has an historical link with the ENSGSI ( Engineering School on Innovation).
ERPI is a research team on Industrial Engineering specialized on the research of innovation processes management. Its activities concerns the methods, tools and knowledges allowing to optimise innovation projects management.
The scientific project of the ERPI deals with the Fuzzy Front-End off innovation that is to say from idea generation to materialization (CAD, formulation …). ERPI differs to other innovation research laboratories by considering the product as a “integrating system”.
Latest News
Journal of Responsible Innovation – Special issue
Call for papers: Technology, Engineering, and Innovation Management Communities as Enablers for Responsible Research and Innovation. Guest editors: Vincent Boly, Fedoua Kasmi, Mauricio Camargo Université de Lorraine, ERPI F-54000 Nancy, France
Awarded Thesis by the Research Network on Innovation
Congratulations to our colleague Ferney Osorio who has just been awarded the Honoris Causa Thesis Award 2022
Workshop N-Hum-Inno TEA+Techviz
Réalité virtuelle et Ergonomie : leviers de performance pour l’industrie 4.0 - Le 3 Mars 2022
Our research platform
The Lorraine Fab Living Lab® (LF2L®) is a research platform of the ERPI Laboratory dedicated to the prospective assessment of innovative usages. It supports the creation and achievement of results through an established process based on the usage paradigm bringing together in the same space complementary advanced tools. The originality of the LF2L® is to be able to welcome, support and associate different communities (citizen users, entrepreneurs, researchers, etc.) using a conceptual framework of LF2L taking into consideration the 2D (concept), 3D (object), 4D (evolution scenarios) approaches involving the different type of stakeholders in order to have a foresight usage evaluation of a new concept, technology or project. This approach is useful to accelerate the deployment of industrial or urban demonstrators.
Research subjects
Some topics of research are
- Innovation management
- Use assessment
- Innovation assessment
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