About the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship

ESCP Business School was founded in 1819 by, among others, French scholar Jean-Baptiste Say. The School has chosen to teach responsible leadership, open to the world and based on European multiculturalism. Six campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw are the stepping-stones that allow students to experience this European approach to management and entrepreneurship.

Several generations of entrepreneurs and managers were thus trained in the firm belief that the business world can nurture society in a positive way. This conviction and ESCP’s values – excellence, singularity, creativity and plurality – guide our mission daily, and build its pedagogical vision.

Every year, ESCP welcomes 6300 students and 5000 managers from 120 different nationalities. Its strength lies in its many business training programmes, both general and specialised (Bachelor, Master, MBA, Executive MBA, PhD and Executive Education), all of which include a multi-campus experience.

The Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship was developed in 2007 by the Entrepreneurship Chair of ESCP Business School. We rely on ESCP’s unique European network and train entrepreneurs and leaders around the world. The institute is named in tribute to the man behind the concept of the entrepreneur, and who, in 1819, also founded the first business school in the world.

Our mission is to facilitate the development of entrepreneurial mindsets and uncertainty competence in current and future leaders. Consequently, we are driving an entrepreneurial revolution in the understanding, training, as well as practice of business and management that is ambitious, sustainable, and human-centered.