Acredita Portugal: How to improve the implementation rate of entrepreneurial projects?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Acredita Portugal is a non-profit organisation that promotes entrepreneurship in Portugal, through the organisation and management of activities focusing on entrepreneurial contests and training workshops. The aim of this work project is to analyse the AP processes in order to improve the entrepreneurial projects implementation rate. Through an internship, it was studied the organisation AP, their practices and the succeeded enterprises1. The theoretical perspective on business incubation models and other similar Portuguese organisations of reference have been visited to support the gap analysis. Finally, it is presented conclusions and recommendations to favour AP’s improvement regarding project implementation rate.