Shape the Economy of Tomorrow – Student Challenge

Challenge

• Shape the economy of tomorrow: develop your new business ideas and reinvent business models.

Scope

• Focus on customers and how their needs are evolving. Understand the underlying megatrends and “triggers” that could catalyze innovation and how to leverage them.

Context

• Think about innovative solutions or technologies that can help businesses improve, transform, and reimagine how they create value to become future-proof.
• Identify and leverage the underlying business capabilities you need to enable the model you are building.
• Foster a culture of innovation to deepen employee engagement.

Expected Solutions

• To what extent does your solution provide information and knowledge and/or competitive advantage for businesses?
• How do your solutions help businesses understand their strengths and weaknesses and how do you help improve the situation?
• Does your technology/solution facilitate and/or accelerate the evaluation of such designs in the business environment to measure the impact?

Benefits

• A 4m2 stand at VivaTech
  • A physical presence at VivaTech on the PwC stand on Saturday June 14, 2025
• A Design Sprint workshop
  • A Design Sprint workshop to refine your idea with PwC’s Tech Acceleration team
• 3 coaching sessions with Ovni Capital
  • 3 coaching sessions with Ovni Capital to identify your market and your business model.

Selection Criteria

• Team composition
  • Teams must be composed of students from at least two different schools.
• Innovation and differentiating character
  • Does the project have an innovative character and does it have the capacity to be unique?
• Ability to meet a need and monetize it
  • Does the project effectively meet a specific need?
• Societal and environmental impact
  • Does the project have a potential impact on society and the environment?
• Team quality
  • Are collaboration, communication and professional skills intrinsic qualities of the team?
• Ability to convince and knowledge of the project
  • Do the participants demonstrate the ability to convince and defend their project?
• Value proposition
  • What value proposition and benefits does it bring?
• Structuring and feasibility
  • Do the participants structure their project and their ability to materialize it in a realistic manner?

For more information, visit Viva Technology.