In November we announced the winners of YBI’s second Innovation Challenge. In this interview, Bob Dorf, Lean Innovation and Customer Development expert, shares his reflections on coaching participants through the process. Why launch an Innovation Challenge? For Youth Business International (YBI) an Innovation Challenge is a great opportunity to push leaders across the network out of their comfort […]
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Youth Business International (YBI)’s second Innovation Challenge, supported by Accenture, aimed to encourage the development of innovative services for young entrepreneurs by network members. This year members could propose new models and approaches in four areas: mentoring, training, access to finance and access to markets. Two winners were awarded $80,000 in total for their impressive projects […]
November was a month in which entrepreneurship was celebrated around the world. The main event of the month was the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), a worldwide campaign promoting entrepreneurship and its positive impact on economies around the world, in over 160 countries. This year, as part of the GEW campaign, YBI has partnered with UNCTAD, WIPO, Politecnico di Milano and Impact Hub Geneva and […]