The business school hopes the partnership will strengthen the ecosystem, leveraging its faculty, program participants and alumni network for the initiative.

Insead and venture capital firm Luxury Tech Fund inked a strategic partnership yesterday that made the business school the vehicle’s academic venture partner.

The initiative will leverage Insead’s faculty, students and alumni network, aiming to boost entrepreneurship at the institution and drive further research into luxury technologies – high-end consumer products such as carbon fibre suitcases or high-fidelity wireless speakers.

Luxury Tech fund is a VC firm leveraging the investment platform of Auriga Partners. It focuses on providing a significant…