ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the implementation of the hub initiatives and estimates the impact on young people's entrepreneurial attitudes and the creation of a more entrepreneurial culture. It identifies some of the evaluation difficulties which arose as policy evolved during the study, and to draw out some lessons for both policy and its evaluation. The methodology was reasonably consistent with Storey's recommended 'good practice' and towards the most sophisticated end of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) range of entrepreneurship evaluation methodologies. The methodology was also designed to estimate hub impacts on those who influence young people and local youth enterprise policy. Nevertheless, it appears that the hubs had a positive impact throughout the logic chain with increased awareness of entrepreneurship, a reduction in the fear of failure as a constraint on business formation, and increased entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intent. The chapter shows a positive impact on the business formation and self-employment.
