Embracing differences is essential for creativity. Over the past 15 years, Schoolab has created a divers community and network, connecting people and organizations. From Paris to San Francisco, we bring together entrepreneurs, fortune 500 executives, students and innovation experts. We design spaces and programs that allow differences within people and organizations to arise as an asset and create value.
Deplastify The Planet
A generational approach to finding solutions to plastic waste in partnership with UC Berkeley.
The Innovation Studio
Based in San Francisco: Corporations, startups, students and experts work together, leveraging differences and delivering creativity
Contact usOur mission
Our methods have been successfully uncovering human potential to create and nurture innovation in businesses of all sizes. For the past 15 years, we have collaborated with an array of actors, designing and building concrete, collaborative and impactful projects. We mix generations and expertise to enhance your solutions, alining your vision with the needs and necessities of a better tomorrow.



A network of innovators
5,000 innovators and creators of all ages, backgrounds, professions and horizons
Innovators and creators around the globe
Alumni trained by one of the Schoolab programs
Startups incubated or accelerated at Schoolab.
Our programs
We leverage speculative design, generations and open innovation to help you find and design impactful solutions.
Trusted by Fortune 500
Discover our business innovation cases in Europe and in the United States













Faurecia finds new allies for war on plastic
“ Faurecia wants to work in a more sustainable way in the face of environmental challenges ”

L’Oréal launches a school in less than a year!
“ 1 school launched in less than a year ”

Société Général launches internal hackathon
“ 200 employees participated to internal hackathon ”
What makes us unique
We reveal individuals/talents and give them the keys to (re)invent their company, startup, association, institution. Our methods have shown outstanding results and the success of our projects are carried out by our clients around the world.
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MethodsWe use Design Thinking, Design Fiction, Lean Startup and Growth hacking methodologies to help our clients design the best solutions.
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MultidisciplinarityMulticultural teams, opposing and complementary paradigms, 1 + 1 = 3.
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Learning by doingTry fast, fail fast, learn fast