Commissioned by Youth Business International
The Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research (CEEDR) and the Department of Leadership, Work and Organisations (LWO) at Middlesex University secured a global research project with Youth Business International (YBI). Commencing in January 2016, the project ended in July 2017.
This project evaluated how volunteer business mentoring assisted young entrepreneurs, both in terms of their business start-up and development as well as their personal growth and entrepreneurial journey, and informed the YBI's Global Growth Strategy.
The longitudinal project involved YBI's global network of 46 independent non-profit initiatives spanning 42 countries, which provided integrated support to under-served young entrepreneurs. It was expected to deliver high quality academic outputs and have a global impact on youth entrepreneurship policy and practice.
Six academics from CEEDR and LWO made up the core research team, including Dr Julie Haddock-Millar (Principal Investigator), Dr Leandro Sepulveda (Co-Principal Investigator), Dr Robyn Owen (Co-Investigator), Chandana Sanyal (Co-Investigator) and Prof Stephen Syrett (Project Director)
YBI, the only dedicated global youth entrepreneurship practitioner, committed to an evidence-led approach to meet its growth target to support 100,000 young entrepreneurs globally per year by 2020.
Please check out the final report
