Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>We use two sequential RCTs to study the impact of a twice-executed six-month intensive training program costing about 12,000 euros per participant to encourage social entrepreneurship among youth. The first year training effort provided no robust treatment effects. Results were used to redesign and improve the training. The second year effort provided treatment effects on venture actions, venture creation, one leadership characteristic, one non-cognitive skill, and on subsequent work experience in startups. For both interventions, those that had made more progress prior to the start of the program, made more progress afterwards, irrespective of treatment. Those having the highest pre-treatment expectations, and the highest selectivity scores made the least progress, irrespective of treatment. Training people to learn entrepreneurship seems to be difficult and costly, but repeated field-experiments can serve to increase the impact of entrepreneurship training.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sej.1391 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question What is the effect of social entrepreneurship training on entrepreneurs skills and the success of their ventures? Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The treatment group received a six month intensive training course aimed at encouraging social entrepreneurship. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>leadership motivation, leadership style, social entrepreneurial aspirations and intentions, non-cognitive skills, sustainable behaviour, entrepreneurial actions or venture creation</p> Results <p>No impact after the first year of treatment and limited impact after the second year. In both cases, impact was strongest among participants that had made the most progress on their venture prior to treatment.</p> Intervention costs 12,000 euros per participant Cost benefit ratio Reference Åstebro, T., Hoos, F. (2016). 'The Effects of a Training Program to Encourage Social Entrepreneurship'. Working paper. Citation for use in academic references
