Description

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Curriculum

Our programme targets your expertise

The programme’s objective is to enable participants

• to initiate and provide structure for an entrepreneurial activity,

• to start a company,

• or manage a new activity within an existing structure (intrapreneurship activity).

This full-time curriculum is spread over one year divided into 3 terms as follows:

• 2 terms of intensive courses - September to December; January to March. An international seminar abroad is included

• 1 term of professsionalization from April to December:
  • a company placement of at least 4 months, and
  • a professional thesis defended orally to a committee between early November and mid-December the year following the September intake.

Participants have to be proficient both in French and English.

Course modules

The course is centred round three basic components:

• The student’s entrepreneurial project, which serves as a backbone for his/her coursework

• A solid support system that includes:

• Role plays with business angels based on the business plan
• An academic “pre-incubator” to nurture the best business plans and support the launch of the most promising projects developed by Specialized Master students.
• Corporate world professional coaches
• Entrepreneurship projects:
  • "Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards": awards the best project of 2010 class
  • "Accenture Awards" in partnership with BFM
  • "Prix de la Stratégie d'entreprise" in partnership with Les Echos
• Real-life cases
• CEO Talks
• Office hours

• Coursework on the fundamentals of management, marketing and finance, and cross-disciplinary courses on project management and practical application.

Detailed Modules

• Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Financial modelling
  • Accounting
  • Taxation

• Entrepreneurship
  • Opportunity Recognition
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship Practicum

• Strategic Mapping
  • Strategy
  • E-Business
  • Technology Transfer
  • High Tech Strategy & Management

• Venture design: Shaping the opportunity
  • Marketing & Innovation
  • Legal Issues
  • Business cases

• Leadership
  • Leadership & Entrepreneurship
  • Team Building

• In-Depth Studies
  • Negotiation
  • Pricing
  • Human Resources Management

• Entrepreneurial Applications
  • Entrepreneurial Track
  • Venturing Machine
  • International seminar
  • L’Oreal Life Case Study (or other companies)

Requirements

Eligible applicants must hold a master degree (research or professional) in fine arts, architecture, engineering, management, public administration, political science, humanities or in any other field.
This requirement may be waived for applicants with non-traditional backgrounds and those who demonstrate exceptional qualities and skills. In accordance with standards set by the French “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles”, such applicants must not exceed 30% of admitted students per year.

The following degrees are required for eligibility (in fields such as engineering, management, medecine, architecture, humanities ... ):

• A Master degree (five years of study)
• A Post-graduate degree (over 5 years)
• A Bachelor degree with 3 years of work experience
• A French "Grande Ecole" degree
• Other degree equivalent to the above
  (please consult us)

Work Experience

At least 3 year(s) of work experience are required.

Funding

Scholarships

For the 2013-2014 schoolyear, scholarships depending on both financial need and merit will be granted to the students in the Specialized Master programmes.

Only students who fulfill the two following criteria will be eligible:

• students who were granted a scholarship (level 2 to 6 only) based on financial need in 2011-2012 and/or 2012-2013 ;
• students who are admitted on the 1st list in the ESCP Europe Specialized Master’s selection

The amount of the scholarship is 10% of the tuition fees and will be deducted from these fees. Students will be informed of the amount of their scholarship at the end of October 2013.

For more information, please contact

Sophia AIT-YAHIA
Registrar, ESCP Europe Campus Paris