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ESG Table featured an op-ed by Jörg Rocholl, President of ESMT Berlin, and Joanna Radeke, Director of Sustainability at ESMT Berlin, on biodiversity, arguing that companies must move beyond single metrics and adopt context-specific indicators to measure and manage their impacts and dependencies on natural ecosystems.

Deutschland muss seine strukturellen Wachstumskräfte stärken und den Standort gleichzeitig zukunftsfest machen. In diesem Expertendialog beleuchten Reint Gropp, Präsident des Leibniz-Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), und Jörg Rocholl, Präsident der ESMT Berlin, die zentralen Stellschrauben für mehr Dynamik, darunter:  

• Höhere Produktivität durch Innovation und KI-Diffusion
• Leistungsfähige Kapitalmärkte
• Kluge Fiskalregeln

INNOVA Europe, the student competition founded by EDHEC Business School, ESMT Berlin, and POLIMI Graduate School of Management, has published the first European Responsible Startup Practice Barometer. The study surveyed 433 startups from 13 European countries between January and April 2025 to assess how young companies integrate responsible practices into their operations and what prevents them from doing more.

The DEEP – Institute for Deep Tech Innovation at ESMT Berlin is expanding the German offering of Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) with a new Defence Stream. Each year, the stream will support up to 25 science-based startups developing and commercializing dual-use technologies.

Lagebild interviewed Thorsten Lambertus, Managing Director of DEEP at ESMT Berlin, on CDL Defence, a new global Creative Destruction Lab stream supporting dual use ventures and accelerating real-world deployment through mentoring and early pilots.

At the 2025 Virchow Prize Lecture, hosted by ESMT Berlin, leading scientists and policymakers explored how evidence-based innovation can advance equity in women’s, maternal, newborn, and child health. Honoring Professors Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, the event – held on October 10 and published simultaneously in The Lancet – highlighted how community partnerships, political engagement, and responsible leadership turn research into real-world impact.

We will notify you by email as soon as the scholarship application round opens in February 2026.

If you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to contact us at bd@esmt.org.

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ESMT Berlin
Executive Education Team