Predicting Entrepreneurial Success is Hard : Evidence from a Business Plan Competition in Nigeria

We compare the absolute and relative performance of three approaches to predicting outcomes for entrants in a business plan competition in Nigeria: Business plan scores from judges, simple ad hoc prediction models used by researchers, and machine learning approaches. We find that i) business plan sc...

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Main Authors: McKenzie, David, Sansone, Dario
Published: Elsevier 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32160