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>Research confirms that business coaching is core to most incubation and acceleration programmes. Business coaching combines aspects of teaching, training, mentoring, and consulting and creates a general support approach for early-stage technology ventures. It has been identified as a key attribute to the impact of an early-stage venture team’s performance.</p> <p> This randomized controlled trial seeks to provide evidence for the effect of business coaching on technology-based venture teams. By recording the teams' survival and economic performance, the research aims to identify methods for increasing and improving the effectiveness of business coaching. A pragmatic two-armed randomized controlled trial will test the effect of business coaching on the survival capabilities of technology-based ventures. Over a period of three years, the trial will recruit 450 ventures from the German regional state Baden-Württemberg. The project delivery partner bwcon GmbH will provide accredited, experienced coaches who will impart tactical knowledge to the founder teams in the form of individual support sessions. The treatment group for this trial comprises of 150 startups, with around fifty teams subjected to the intervention each year. Another 300 ventures act as the control group, having not received business coaching. Each venture's development is tracked on a half yearly base. After three years, the trial will compare the ventures' survival capability. </p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8792604 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 How do we know that business coaching actually affects survival capabilities, and thus the growth of ventures? Sample Trial population and sample selection Technology-based early-stage ventures in Baden-Württemberg recruited to this programme Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Accredited, experienced coaches are imparting certain tactical knowledge to the founder teams in the form of individual support sessions. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Survival capabilities and economic outcomes, ventures’ growth indicators such as revenue, employees, and capital acquired</p> Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
