Cherine Zgaya
Incubator Director
Incubator Director
Status: Director of the EDCube incubator and assistant professor of entrepreneurship
Department: Entrepreneurship
Degree and specialisation: Master's in Entrepreneurship and Project Management
Courses taught:
Micro entrepreneurship Supporting an entrepreneurial project EDC Start-up & Innovation Challenge Innovation management & Lean Start-up Family business management The impact of entrepreneurial agility within mid-sized companies
Research areas:
• Student entrepreneurial engagement
• Entrepreneurial intention and behaviour
• Development of entrepreneurial skills
• Entrepreneurship education and learning by doing
• Professional values and career orientation
• Social and sustainable entrepreneurship
Biography:
Cherine Zgaya is Director of the EDCube incubator and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at EDC Paris Business School. A doctoral student at the University of Grenoble Alpes, her work focuses on student entrepreneurial engagement.
At EDC, she actively contributes to the development of the school's entrepreneurship strategy, combining practice, teaching and research. She works to build bridges between incubation activities, teaching and scientific production in order to strengthen the coherence and quality of the students' entrepreneurial journey.
An expert in incubation and entrepreneurship education, she designs and implements programmes based on learning by doing and ideation. Her priority is to enable students to develop their entrepreneurial skills through active, experiential and collaborative approaches.
Before joining EDC, she coordinated several European projects (Erasmus+) dedicated to entrepreneurial education and social inclusion, and ran an academic incubator at a business school. Committed to the impact entrepreneurship ecosystem, she collaborates with educational institutions, NGOs and businesses to promote a sustainable and inclusive approach to entrepreneurship.
Publications:
• Maalaoui, A., Diep, B., Zgaya Bouzouita, C., & Mejri, I. (2022). Women victims of domestic violence: entrepreneurship as a lever for personal and professional reconstruction. In ICSB Global MSMEs Report 2022.
• Maalaoui, A., Le Loarne-Lemaire, S., Zgaya Bouzouita, C., & Diep, B. (2022). Personal resilience through entrepreneurial learning: key findings from the study on battered women who start their own businesses. In ICSB Global MSMEs Report 2022.
• Maalaoui, A., Diep, B., Kiwan, L., & Zgaya-Bouzouita, C. (2022). Artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship: a new approach. In 2022 Report on MSMEs.
• Zgaya-Bouzouita, C. (2025). Students' entrepreneurial intention and commitment to revamp training and support provision in a French business school. Paper presented at ENIG
• Zgaya Bouzouita, C. (2025). Empowering survivors of domestic violence through entrepreneurship training: lessons from the EASE project. Paper presented at ICGS 2025.