Context

The world is changing and facing many challenges. Thinking outside the box, seeking out and deploying new solutions, and creating new models are the driving forces behind progress that is more eagerly awaited than ever.

Would you like to set up your own business, but need training and support? Are you looking to join a start-up company? Or do you simply want to discover the world of entrepreneurship?

ESSEC Business School and CentraleSupélec offer you training within their entrepreneurial ecosystems, thanks to a high-level curriculum and access to their alumni networks. This training will enable you to develop a global and transdisciplinary vision of entrepreneurship, enabling you to create, build and manage projects or your own company.

This MS program opens up a wide range of possibilities : Business founder, Right-hand to a Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (SME), Profit Centre Manager or Business Unit Manager, Subsidiary Manager, Business Developer in an incubator, Research Commercialization Unit, Economic and Industrial Development Support Structure Analyst, Investor in a Project or Business Financing Structure, Project Manager, Analyst in a Mergers and Acquisitions Firm, Lawyer specialised in Fundraising.

Career possibilities include : Executive positions (CEO, MD, etc.), Business Developer, Marketing Manager, Project Manager, Business Unit Manager, Consultant.

Are you a professional ? Submit your application via the CentraleSupélec application portal: visit its website.
Are you a recent graduate ? Apply via the ESSEC application portal: visit its website.

Objectives

The aim of this training course is to :
- TRANSMIT to participants the skills essential to the creation and management of growth companies (start-ups, SMEs, Business Units with a strong intrapreneurial component).
- ASSIST YOU in your business creation, takeover and association projects.
- EMPOWER YOU in a start-up (your own or one you join) or fast-growing SME.

Program

POSSIBILITY TO DEVELOP YOUR STARTUP UPTO 60% OF THE TIME

• LAST WEEK OF AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER
  - Team Building & Leadership Seminar
  - Climate Day Seminar
  - Social and Sustainable Innovation Seminar
  - Diversity Fresco Workshop
  - Introduction to Negotiation Seminar
  - Financial Accounting
  - Cost Analysis
  - Principles of Management
  - SPOC : Entrepreneurship
  - SPOC : Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• OCTOBER TO DECEMBER
  - Fil Rouge: project opportunity evaluation (coaching included)
  - Marketing
  - Creativity Seminar
  - Innovation Marketing
  - Business Modelling
  - Design Thinking Seminar
  - Digital Prototyping for Startups
  - Strategy
  - Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Startups
  
  JANUARY : PROJECT OPPORTUNITY DEFENSE IN FRONT OF A JURY
• JANUARY TO JUNE
  - Financial Business Plan
  - Legal Toolbox
  - Pitch – Practise Oral Communication
  - Go-to-market
  - Digital Marketing
  - Overview of Tech Innovations
  - Financial Engineering
  - Fundraising
  - Entrepreneurial Leadership

Pre-requisites

BAC+5 from engineering school, business school, university.
M1 diploma or equivalent, for candidates with at least three years' professional experience related to the course in question.
RNCP level 7 qualification (former level I nomenclature).
Foreign diploma equivalent to the French qualifications required above.
By way of exception, candidates with 5 years' experience may be admitted via a VAPP procedure, as may M1s with no experience or L3s with 3 years' experience.

public concerned

Are you a professional with more than three years' experience?
Apply via the CentraleSupélec application portal and contact us for more information.

in practice

Training methods

An applied approach to entrepreneurship: all students are involved in an entrepreneurial project, setting up their own business or working as a “right-hand man” in a start-up or SME, as part of an internship or fixed-term contract.
Study trips abroad
Full-time in September, then alternating from October to June
An active teaching dynamic based on the production of a business plan through a “red thread” project.

Training means

Assessment methods

Continuous assessment throughout the various modules
Professional thesis written and defended before a panel of experts

The benefits of the course

The historical legitimacy of CentraleSupélec and ESSEC in training entrepreneurs
A study trip
A curriculum that alternates courses with business creation projects
Numerous events : Digital Week Competition, Startup Shaker, Concours de l'Entrepreneuriat Social Etudiant
The strength of a network of graduates from two grandes écoles

Statistics

50%
of graduates continue to work on projects started during the program

50%
of graduates become entrepreneurial employees in companies, financial institutions, or business creation support organizations

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Incubators

+400
alumni of the MSc CentraleSupélec-ESSEC Entrepreneurs

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International Study Trip

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