La Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat (RE), created within the context of the Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat (AEI), published its first issue in 2001, with Professor Bertrand Saporta as its first editor-in-chief. In succession, Professor Robert Paturel, Professor Alain Fayolle, and Professors Jean-Pierre Boissin, Alain Fayolle, and Karim Messeghem served as the journal’s first co-editors-in-chief, followed by Professors Sylvie Sammut and Didier Chabaud, and then, Professors Céline Barrédy and Bérangère Deschamps, who are currently at the helm. The first director of publication, who would remain so for the first ten years of its operation, was Professor Thierry Verstraete, followed by successive presidents of the AEI: Professors Michel Bernasconi, Didier Chabaud, Jean-Pierre Boissin, and Catherine Léger-Jarniou.
The editorial that brought the journal to life remains the compass that has been left to us to guide RE’s editorial policy:The objective of this new journal is thus quite naturally to go beyond this positioning [Editor’s Note: the ‘folkloric’ positioning of the traditional press] to create a place for debate and reflection using the resources of the scientific method, the objects of which will be the entrepreneur himself, the organisation created or taken over, the processes that preceded, then characterised the entrepreneurial event over its duration, and of course the study of the interactions between these three essential components and the environment in which they exist…