JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT STUDENT COMPANY COMPETITONS ANALYSIS
Abstract
JA-YE Europe Student Company programs give high school and postsecondary students the opportunity to experience the entrepreneurship in practice through learning
by doing educational methods. Students get an insight into self-employment, business analysis
and creation, risk taking and manage adversity all with advice and support from business
consultants.
The present paper provides the big picture behind the Company program, stakeholder
analysis and successful patterns and model recognition. The paper summarizes the preliminary
results from 10 years of experience and empirically-derived research study focusing on the
relationship between the degrees of value creation and innovation in a sample of more than 500
high school Student companies and 75 university Student companies, that have been participated
in and successfully accomplished JA Company Program. Data was collected for the last 5 years.
The results include winning patterns based on a CRISP-DM research methodology using predictive
models. The generated models and results can be applied by school and university Student
Companies, their tutors and consultants.
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