This report analyses refugee entrepreneurship, its role in providing jobs for refugees and host communities, and how business, governments, and development partners can support it.

The survey presented in this report examines the aspects of Refugee Entrepreneurship Initiatives (REIs) that fulfill two important criteria; 1) they are commonly monitored and reported by REI providers regardless of setting and 2) they are indicative of positive business-related outcomes for refugee business owners. Building on findings from several reports and field studies, the academic team held a series of focus groups in 2022 in collaboration with The Human Safety Net to determine activities and outcomes that were meaningful and measurable to a broad constituency of REIs.

Accelerators are entrepreneurial programs that attempt to help ventures learn, often utilizing extensive consultation with mentors, program directors, customers, guest speakers, alumni and peers. While accelerators have rapidly emerged as prominent players in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, entrepreneurs, policy makers, and academics continue to raise questions about their efficacy. Moreover, relevant organizational literature suggests that even if accelerators are associated with better venture outcomes, results could be due to mechanisms other than learning, such as sorting or signaling.

Do business accelerators affect new venture performance? This paper investigates this question in the context of Start-Up Chile, an ecosystem accelerator. It focuses on two treatment conditions typically found in business accelerators: basic services of funding and coworking space, and additional entrepreneurship schooling. Using a regression discontinuity design, the paper shows that schooling bundled with basic services can significantly increase new venture performance. In contrast, the paper finds no evidence that basic services affect performance on their own.

The expected standards for business support evaluation, ensuring comparability across programmes is maximised.

Combining some of the best insights, tools, frameworks and strategies to come out of the Frontier Incubators program, this guide offers a thorough and practical overview of ten key topics related to incubation and acceleration, as understood by some of the most experienced and knowledgeable support organisations on the planet.

A report on the impact of incubators and accelerators on start-up businesses and on the wider business ecosystem.

Why is high-growth entrepreneurship scarce in developing countries? Does this scarcity reflect firm capabilities constraints? This paper explores these questions using as a laboratory an accelerator in Colombia that selects participants using scores from randomly assigned judges and offers them training, advice, and visibility but no cash. Exploiting exogenous differences in judges’ scoring generosity, the paper shows that alleviating constraints to firm capabilities unlocks innovative entrepreneurs’ potential but does not transform subpar ideas into high-growth firms.