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EMLYON is a private management school based in the city of Lyon in France. It is among the highest ranked business schools internationally. Since the mid-1980s EMLYON has been focusing on developing entrepreneurial mind-sets among students and faculty members. Today there is an emphasis on EE in all academic programmes and other activities, closely linked with the EMLYON Incubator. Since 2004, the school’s baseline is “Educating Entrepreneurs for the World”. In line with the school’s focus, a large number of teachers are involved in EE: ten professors are covering entrepreneurship extensively; another 30–40 are involved in EE. Several lessons can be learnt from the EMLYON case. First, EE appears to require a long-term strategy, continuity and persistence. Second, the strength of EMLYON’s approach seems to be in diverse education, combining research, teaching, incubating, mentoring, coaching, and other activities, which together generate an entrepreneurial culture at the university. Third, a strong focus on EE may require continuous innovation in teaching. However, since EMLYON is a private business school with specific resources, its approach may not easily be copied by public sector universities.
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EM is the abbreviation of the French term “Ecole de Management”, i.e. Management School.
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Quoted from Global Entrepreneurship programme brochure, p 2.
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See semester-long consulting project for a local company with students from other countries, reinforcing teamwork on a global level and helping you acquire practical experience in addition to academic knowledge.
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Mostly direct quotes from http://www.em-lyon.com/en/emlyon-entrepreneurial-education/emlyon-business-school/Pedagogical-Innovation
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See Annual report 2012, p 3.
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Examples quoted in a shortened form from http://www.em-lyon.com/en/Journalist/press-releases-management-school-france/30th-anniversary-of-the-EMLYON-Incubator-1984-2014
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Research for this case was conducted by Stefan Zagelmeyer, Alliance Manchester Business School, on behalf of empirica for the study “supporting the entrepreneurial potential of higher education” (sepHE). Sources and references used include desk research plus:
1.1 Interviews
Alain Fayolle, Professor in Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Organization, EM Lyon, 28 Oct 2014, telephone interview
Philippe Silberzahn, Associate Professor Strategy and Organization, EM Lyon, 15 Apr 2015, telephone interview
1.2 Literature and Websites
EM Lyon (2011) Annual review. Lyon
EM Lyon (2012) Annual report. Lyon
EM Lyon (2013) Annual review. Lyon
EM Lyon (2015) EMLYON homepage. http://www.em-lyon.com/en. Accessed 25 May 2015
Incubateur EMLYON (2015) Incubateur blog. https://emlyonincubateur.wordpress.com/. Accessed 25 May 2015
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Zagelmeyer, S. (2017). EMLYON: Educating Entrepreneurs as a Prime Objective of a Private Business School. In: Volkmann, C., Audretsch, D. (eds) Entrepreneurship Education at Universities. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55547-8_12
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