SmartESA Innovation Center.
We partner with corporations, institutions, and governments to design tailored innovation programmes — combining creativity, technology, and collective intelligence to unlock new possibilities from within.
Open Innovation
Unleashing creativity at speed.
A tailored programme for each organisation — designed around discovering new opportunities, fostering creativity, integrating technology, and building collective intelligence. We don’t deliver workshops; we co-design transformation.
We help organisations embrace change as a competitive advantage — building cultures of creativity, experimentation, and continuous reinvention through structured facilitation.
Human-centred design sessions that bring together clients, teams, and stakeholders to co-design solutions. We facilitate; your organisation owns the outcome.
We apply startup management models — lean methodology, rapid prototyping, hypothesis-driven development — to transform how established organisations operate.
Creathons, hackathons, and innovation sprints that tap the collective intelligence of employees, citizens, and communities to generate actionable solutions.
Biomimicry-inspired innovation workshops — using nature’s models as a creative lens for designing sustainable, affordable, and elegant solutions.
As Lebanon’s officially recognised AI Incubator, we integrate AI and digital tools into innovation programmes — helping organisations discover, adopt, and build with emerging technology.
International Initiative
I2E — Iraq Innovation Ecosystem
SmartESA’s open-innovation methodology deployed internationally.
The I2E initiative brings SmartESA’s full innovation methodology to Iraq — helping organisations and aspiring entrepreneurs map where their industry is being disrupted, identify emerging opportunities, and build the capacity to act on them.
Through conferences, workshops, and Idea Spin-off sessions, I2E builds a living innovation culture in new markets — creating ecosystems, not just events.
→ Innovation mapping and trend discovery sessions
→ Idea Spin-off workshops with local entrepreneurs
→ Capacity-building for institutions and businesses
→ Connection to SmartESA’s international ecosystem
Flagship Initiative
Ed’Innov — School of the Future
In partnership with Lebanon’s Ministry of Education (MEHE), SmartESA is supporting 20 pilot schools in their transition to the school of the future — using a startup management model, community co-design, and a curriculum built around the skills that actually matter in the 21st century.
Three steps: First, adopt the startup management model. Second, focus on transversal skills — creativity, communication, global citizenship. Third, use technology to enhance pedagogy and valorise teachers as mentors.
This is not about screens. It’s about what happens in the mind behind the screen.
Supported in transition to the school of the future across Lebanon, in partnership with MEHE.
A dedicated healthcare innovation hackathon with Hôtel-Dieu-de-France Hospital Group — putting open innovation at the service of healthcare challenges.
