JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENT COMPANIES PREDICTIVE MODELS 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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