Hélène Mialet has held positions at Cornell, Harvard, and Oxford Universities, and currently lives and teaches in Berkeley, California. She is the author of L’Entreprise Créatrice, an ethnographic study of practices and processes of invention in an applied research laboratory in a multinational oil company. L’Entreprise Créatrice was a finalist for the Prix ADVANCIA for the best book published in French on entrepreneurship and innovation in 2008.