The November Issue of L’Expansion magazine did a feature on the uberization of work: the end of salaried work in France, where walls are crumbling. Independence, but also risks and a need to reorganize life. At Presans, we observe this trend operating in our industry. Indeed, we are doing our best to contribute to its organization. A grinning Jean Botti, CTO at Airbus Group, entrusted us with one of his dreams: "a smartphone app that would produce a synthetical and analytical overview of the knowledge possessed by the best experts in a given domain ; the sum of all knowledge components inside a brain.” Is it possible to imagine monetizing immaterial assets such as knowledge, expertise or know-how, as is already the case with Uber and Airbnb, who make a network available and then monetize underused physical assets? Are we on the cusp of the Uberization of intelligence?

There are a lot of accelerators out there, and Presans has its eye on startups. Organized by the HEC Advanced Technology Group, this timely event gathered some big players around the table to make sense of what’s going on in that industry. Check out our takeaways from the discussion and let us know if you think there is a bubble in startupland.