Participation in entrepreneurship competitions and the success factors of start-ups

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Sara Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23049
• topic: Gestão; Empreendedorismo; Novas empresas; Incubadoras de empresas

Entrepreneurship has been growing significative since the last years. At the same time, with the aim of supporting the developing and growth of the start-ups, the number of competitions has also been growing. Despite the several numbers of policies, the number of start-ups that success it is still small. Faced with this phenomenon, several studies focused on the analysis of the factors that contribute to the success of the start-ups, but much of it is still unknown about the factors that contribute the most to the success of this companies. This dissertation proposes to study the impact that the competitions have in the success of the start-up and identify the success factors that contributed to their growth, through an exploratory study. Through a qualitative approach, it was analysed five start-ups, all of them winners of the Building Global Innovators competition, considering three group of factors: founder, strategy and resources. About the group of the founder, it was used a quantitative analysis using a descriptive statistical method. This combination of methods allowed to get important indications about the factors that contribute to the start-up success. The results suggest that, besides the nine success factors initially identified through the literature review, the desire to seize every opportunity it is relevant to the start-up success.