Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute || ESSEC

In a constantly changing world, our graduates need entrepreneurial skills and attitudes that enable them to see and create opportunities in these uncertain contexts. That is why ESSEC Business School has placed Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the heart of its strategy with a strong ambition: to ensure that every ESSEC graduate sees uncertainty as an invitation to action.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Institute brings together a unique ecosystem. It offers immersive entrepreneurial and innovation training and experiences, personalised support programmes and a network of experts to help our students and continuing education participants turn their entrepreneurial and innovative intentions into action and manage their growth with confidence.

At ESSEC, investing in entrepreneurship and innovation is part of our DNA. Each year, across all campuses, we support around 400 business projects within our ecosystem of incubators and programmes.

The Institute aims to make ESSEC the world's leading business school in Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

RESEARCH – The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute supports interdisciplinary research on entrepreneurship and innovation by bringing together teacher-researchers and collaborating with partners.
- Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Paper Development Workshop in Cergy in 2025

EMPOWER – The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute teaches entrepreneurship and innovation to young people and seasoned professionals from the beginning of their studies to enable them to become leading entrepreneurs around the world.
- Specialization tracks for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in BBA and MiM programs
- A specialization track on Scale-ups and Deeptech & Industrial Innovation in the MiM program
- Programme Lead’Hers un programme d'accompagnement pour les femmes entrepreneurs.

INSPIRE – The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute acculturates entrepreneurial-minded students and alumni and allows them to integrate into a dynamic ecosystem, in close partnership with the Centrale-Supelec engineering school.
- 80 events organised per year
- ESSEC Startup & Scale-up Job Fair

TRANSFORM – The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute helps incubatees and alumni develop their businesses through tailor-made support services, ranging from ideation to project creation, from incubation to scaling up.
- 200 projects supported per year
- 25 projects supported per year at ESSEC @ Station F
- Commercial support and team management for Deeptech & Industrial Innovation projects via ESSEC Momentum Studio
- €6 million in capital raised by startups founded by ESSEC alumni in 15 years

Nicolas Landrin

Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Institute

Jan Lepoutre

Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Institute

Within ESSEC and across its three campuses, the Institute fosters, develops and supports a unique entrepreneurial ecosystem of centres and chairs dedicated to entrepreneurship and innovation:

Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- ESSEC Momentum Studio
- ESSEC Ventures Incubator
- ESSEC Station F Incubator
- ESSEC x CentraleSupélec Lead'Hers Programme