ESCP Business School is a major actor in the European academic landscape. As a unique European business school open to the world and, even if ESCP does not vote, ESCP has a voice. In that perspective, the elections are an excellent window of opportunity for us to give voice to our expertise and experience on topics we care about. As a fully-fledged top European Business School, we can draw the attention of opinion leaders and media to our uniqueness at this post-election time. We suggest a forward-looking approach to highlight issues that will be important in the coming years.

With regards to the strategic orientation of research at ESCP Business School, the aim is both to strengthen its leading position in research quality in the academic landscape, and to be an impactful voice in proposing practical applications for key subjects characterising our environment. This strategy is translated in the accelerators process named “LIGHTS”, standing for “Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Geopolitics and Geo-economics, Human well-being and workplace, Technology, and Sustainability”. The idea behind this is to lay the foundations for a “Think Tank” approach, a space for exchange and dialogue with stakeholders.

In order to emphasize this orientation, all contributions have been classified according to these key categories. The idea is to increase the impactful contribution of ESCP members to analyse, criticize, answer, and thus propose avenues for further research and interest for academics and broader stakeholders, based on their expertise, their experience, and their multi-disciplinary competences, thus stimulating creative ideas and innovative perspectives that could inspire our many stakeholders.