The YouWiN! business plan competition offered training and financial support to individuals wanting to start a new business or expand an existing one. This report evaluates the impact of YouWin!, finding that the competition had large positive effects on the rate of business start-up, survival of existing firms, employment, profits and sales of winning firms.
Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship: experimental evidence from a business plan competition
Resource type: Report
Sector: Trade and investment
Year: 2015
File type: PDF
Number of pages: 74
File size: 915 KB
Associated resources
This report describes a 2016 survey of individuals who were successful in the first round of the YouWiN! business plan competition in 2011. The survey shows that YouWiN! continues to have significant impacts five years after application and three years after all funding was received.
