Sylvain Lenfle is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Polytechnique. He defended his doctoral thesis in 2001 at the University of Marne-la-Vallée and the Ecole Polytechnique and his HDR in 2008 at the University of Paris-Dauphine. He was a lecturer at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (2001-2015), and since September 2016 he has been a university professor in innovation management at the Cnam. He is also a research associate at the Centre de recherche en gestion de l'école Polytechnique (i3-CRG,UMR CNRS 9217) since 2001.