Persistent Context
Adolescent
Entrepereneur
Catering to children, business platforms offer learning tactics.
What's Happening
What is the Adolescent Entrepereneur trend?
Adolescent Entrepereneur: Going beyond imaginative play sets and at-home activities, kids are turning to specialized platforms and clubs to develop entrepreneurial skills. Allowing boys and girls to come together to participate in business ventures, these initiatives are creating a space for learning and peer-to-peer socialization.
Evidence
Examples of the Adolescent Entrepereneur trend
Empowering Entrepreneurial Toys
Fashion Angels' 'It's My Biz' Toys Inspire Careers in Business
The toy manufacturing industry can innovate by incorporating entrepreneurship-themed kits that empower young girls to explore business careers.
Educationally Entertaining Robots
The Makeblock 'Codeybot' Makes it Fun to Learn Coding
Incorporating coding education into toys and games can provide a new market of children's products, connecting fun with skill-building
Code-Teaching Robots
Robotiky the Educational Robot Teaches Kids How to Program
Robotiky has disruptive potential for the education industry by enabling teachers to introduce programming education to children at a young age with a fun and engaging approach.
Culinary Children Subscriptions
Foodstirs Subscription Services is a Great Way to Get Kids Cooking
Companies like Blue Apron, HelloFresh, and Purple Carrot have the opportunity to expand their target audience by offering food boxes with kid-friendly recipes and ingredients.
Kid-Made Cosmetics
The First-Graders at Elm Street Elementary School Make and Sell Sugar Scrubs
Empowering kids to run their own businesses in school can disrupt traditional educational models and foster creativity, entrepreneurship skills, and real-world application of know…
Tropical Lemonade Stands
CBX Collaborated with Kids to Create an Epic Lemonade Stand in the City
This lemonade stand project showcases the potential for innovative design approaches in creating engaging and interactive experiences for customers.
Trend themes
Themes within the Adolescent Entrepereneur trend
Three behaviours holding the trend togetherYouth Entrepreneurship
The trend towards youth entrepreneurship programs has led to the creation of specialized platforms and clubs that provide spaces for learning and peer-to-peer socialization for children to develop entrepreneurial skills.
Educational Coding
The trend towards increased importance of coding has led to the development of code-teaching robots and robots designed for intuitive learning experiences to make it easier for boys and girls to learn coding.
Empowering Girls in Business
The trend towards empowering girls to explore careers as entrepreneurs has led to the creation of toys and tools such as Fashion Angels' 'It's My Biz' and educational programs such as Sugar Kids Beauty that teach valuable skills and offer business resources to help girls launch their own businesses.
Industry implications
What the Adolescent Entrepereneur trend means for industry
Where the trend changes the playbookEducation
The trend towards youth entrepreneurship and educational coding presents disruptive innovation opportunities for the education industry to develop platforms and programs that provide spaces for learning and peer-to-peer socialization for children to develop entrepreneurial skills and make coding more accessible and fun.
Toy Industry
The trend towards empowering girls to explore careers as entrepreneurs presents disruptive innovation opportunities for the toy industry to create toys and tools that not only exercise their creativity but also teach valuable skills and offer business resources to help girls launch their own businesses.
Cosmetics Industry
Educational ventures such as Sugar Kids Beauty present disruptive innovation opportunities for the cosmetics industry to create products aimed at children that are made with natural ingredients and are also environmentally friendly.
Trend signals
Trend signals for Adolescent Entrepereneur
Trend score 3.7 out of 10, from popularity 57%, activity 45%, freshness 8%.
- Gen Alpha
- Gen Z
- Millennial
- Gen X (not a primary audience)
- Boomer (not a primary audience)