Social Entrepreneurship Providing a taste for entrepreneurship and the keys to success

Social Entrepreneurship

Providing a taste for entrepreneurship and the keys to success

The entrepreneurial spirit is one of ESSEC’s key values. Giving students a taste of entrepreneurship and innovation has led ESSEC to conduct pioneering efforts in this arena. With the creation of ESSEC Ventures in 2000, ESSEC began offering entrepreneurship education, a business incubator, post incubator and seed fund. In 2008, ESSEC enhanced the program with Antropia, a social incubator that fosters the profitability and long-term viability of social ventures in their field of endeavor.

History

Governance / Learning goals

Campuses

ESSEC Ventures

Social Entrepreneurship

Corporate relations

Getting involved

International in scope

Links

Blog des entrepreneurs
Tremplin entreprises

Private initiatives for the common good

Faithful to its humanist and entrepreneurial tradition, ESSEC was the first business school in France to create, in January 2003, a center of excellence for social entrepreneurship.

The Social Entrepreneurship Chair, an education and applied research program, divides its activities into four main areas: the creation of organizations with a social purpose; strategy and management in a social economy; the corporation and sustainable development; and corporate social responsibility.

One of the chair’s operational projects is a social incubator. Named Antropia, it advises and assists ESSEC students and alumni as they launch and develop innovative ventures with a social mission.