ESMT Start-up Roundtable

Cutting-edge insights into modern business management

The purpose of the roundtable is to initiate an exchange of ideas of modern business management and exciting new businesses coming up in Berlin.

Each meeting will cover one functional area of business such as marketing, technology management, entrepreneurship, and finance. ESMT faculty with expertise on the particular topic will offer some inputs to the companies followed by a Q&A session and perspectives of one or two select participating companies who may represent start-ups, venture capitalists, incubators or even future prospective acquirer of the businesses. Thereafter, we have an informal mixer over some snacks and beverages for the companies to interact more and explore further collaboration if they want with the faculty members of ESMT.

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Further information

Format of ESMT Start-up Roundtable

The program for the ESMT Start-up Roundtable will include one or two select start-up companies talking about their businesses, their success, needs, and challenges followed by comments from ESMT faculty with expertise on particular aspects of their business. The rest of the evening is set aside for participants to continue to exchange ideas informally over some snacks and beverages.

Why a Start-up Roundtable at ESMT?

ESMT is proud be a located in Berlin which according to some commentators is becoming “a new start-up Mecca” in Europe. ESMT’s faculty are experts in fields such as marketing, IP strategy, technology strategy, strategies towards VCs, and entrepreneurship. We would like to contribute to foster a dialogue between the dynamic start-up community in Berlin and our faculty as well as ESMT’s founders.

ESMT is unique in Germany because it boasts of a modern and international business faculty who are educated or had earlier taught in top business schools abroad. Moreover, ESMT’s founders are some of the largest companies in the country. Through the roundtable we want to reach out to the start-up community in Berlin and hope to also bring them together with some of our founding companies.

Expertise in technology management at ESMT

Technology management is taught extensively at ESMT at various levels such as MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Education. Many among the faculty of ESMT are actively engaged in research and case writing in the fields related to management of technology such as R&D, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, managing technology tie-ups, new product development and market diffusion, and financing of start-up companies. In addition, ESMT is also actively engaged in societal aspects of technology in terms of regulation and governance, i.e., the “Rahmenbedingungen” for the development and adoption of new complex technologies.

Faculty who are experts in these areas include Sumitro Banerjee, Guillermo Baquero, Francis Bidault, Linus Dahlander, Jörg Rocholl, Stefan Wagner, and Simon Wakeman.


Contact

Sumitro Banerjee Sumitro Banerjee Assistant Professor

Phone: +49 (0) 30 212 31-1520 Fax: +49 (0) 30 212 31-1281 startup@esmt.org

Participating ESMT Faculty


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