Entrepreneurship today requires more than a promising idea. Successful ventures must combine digital readiness, sustainability awareness, and financial viability in order to respond effectively to complex global challenges. The Start-DSP Assessment Tool has been developed to support entrepreneurs, students, and educators in analysing business concepts from this integrated perspective.
The assessment helps you reflect on the strengths and development needs of your business idea. By guiding you through a structured set of questions, the helps you evaluate how digital technologies, sustainable thinking, financial feasibility, and long-term strategic potential are integrated into the core concept.
The goal is not to judge or rank business ideas. Instead, the assessment provides insights and development-oriented feedback that can support learning, mentoring, and business model refinement.
The European Digital Competence Framework
The European Sustainability Competence Framework
The European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework
Using this integrated approach, the assessment explores four key areas that are essential for modern entrepreneurship:
Each area is divided into thematic sub-sections and assessed through carefully designed questions that reflect real-world considerations faced by early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators.
After completing the assessment, you will receive an automatically generated feedback report that provides a structured evaluation of your responses.
The report includes:
This feedback allows you to identify areas where your business concept is already strong and where additional reflection, planning, or support may be useful.
The assessment can therefore serve as a starting point for entrepreneurship education, mentoring discussions, or the refinement of early-stage business ideas.
The tool is particularly useful during the early stages of business model development, when founders are exploring the viability and impact of their ideas.
