Scientific Beta

Financial Express: "Five years ago, we incubated a start-up called Scientific Beta, which, among other things, sells to banks and investors the results of our research. So, even though our core business is to educate students, managers and executives, we sell indices produced by EDHEC professors and researchers. Today, research in finance contributes to 15% of our revenues."

Financial Express 16/04/2018

"(...) Two things, we believe, make us different. One, the way we do research. Research, for a lot of business schools, is a capital-intensive activity—hire good professors, pay them a lot of money, provide them with assistants, bear their travel expenses for conferences across the world, and so on. But at EDHEC, we decided research should be a source of revenue. We are very strong in the fields of business law and finance. We set up a research centre in finance about 20 years ago. We opened a campus in London (the global centre of finance) and in Singapore (we got funding from Singapore government to start a research centre there). Five years ago, we incubated a start-up called Scientific Beta, which, among other things, sells to banks and investors the results of our research. So, even though our core business is to educate students, managers and executives, we sell indices produced by EDHEC professors and researchers. Today, research in finance contributes to 15% of our revenues. (...)"