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!

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