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Stimulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour Through Start-Up Competitions: Current Features of Provision in UK Higher Education Institutions

In: Entrepreneurial Behaviour

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  • Kayleigh Watson

    (Northumbria University)

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Start-up competitions are often provided by higher education institutions as a means of stimulating and supporting nascent entrepreneurial behaviour amongst their students, graduates and staff. This chapter offers a timely exploration of the features of this provision in a UK context. After a fine-grained examination of the factors which have driven start-up competition provision and the purpose of this provision, this chapter provides observations with regard to start-up competition entrance requirements, rounds, business support, judging and prizes and awards, these constituting the dominant features of current provision in UK higher education institutions. The chapter concludes with a discussion of some emergent issues and questions that warrant further attention in the pursuit of understanding the effectiveness of start-up competitions in stimulating and supporting entrepreneurial behaviour.

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  • Kayleigh Watson, 2019. "Stimulating Entrepreneurial Behaviour Through Start-Up Competitions: Current Features of Provision in UK Higher Education Institutions," Springer Books, in: Maura McAdam & James A. Cunningham (ed.), Entrepreneurial Behaviour, chapter 6, pages 121-143, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-04402-2_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04402-2_6
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    1. Ondřej Dvouletý, 2023. "A note on the effects of start-up competitions: experience from the Czech Business Plan Contest “Idea of the Year”," Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 12(1), pages 1-12, December.

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