Wednesday, September 26, 2012

CIPE 2012 Youth Essay Competition is now open!!

In its fifth year, the CIPE 2012 Youth Essay Competition is now open! Submit your essay now in one of three categories:
Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Beyond technology  
  • What barriers do young entrepreneurs in your country face in translating their ideas into products and services?
  • How do young entrepreneurs in your country foster new ways of acting and thinking?
  • What supporting institutions do young innovators need to succeed?
Inclusive Growth: The entrepreneurial environment for scaling up business
  • What barriers do young entrepreneurs in your country face in translating their ideas into products and services?
  • What challenges do youth-led businesses and entrepreneurs in your country face when they're expanding their enterprises?
  • In your society, what tools or institutions do entrepreneurs need to grow small enterprises into larger, more prosperous businesses?
Social Transformation: The role of entrepreneurs in building democratic societies
  • How can entrepreneurship among youth strengthen newly-formed or emerging democracies?
  • How are young entrepreneurs from different backgrounds participating in your country's democracy?
  • In what ways are young entrepreneurs contributing to social transformations in your country?

The deadline is October 19, 2012. Winners of the competition will receive a $500 honorarium, and CIPE will publish winning essays as Economic Reform Feature Service articles. Also, one grand prize winner will be invited to an all-expenses paid trip to attend CIPE's upcoming Democracy that Delivers for Entrepreneurs conference in the United States, planned for April 2013. For more information about the contest visit www.cipe.org/essay.

Best of luck to all participants!

Note: This message is from CIPE's newsletter!

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