| 21st Century Skills

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

As a citizen of the 21st century,
you should be able to

Convert your ideas into actions.
Undertake, create, or initiate a personal, professional, or business project.
Dare to materialize your development or business plans.
Seek funding to develop your project or start your own company.
Organize, manage, and take on the challenges and risks of a new project or business.
Take control of your future.
Reinvent yourself to seek new opportunities.
Develop an alternative value proposition to what the market offers you.
Continuously adapt your personal project or business to the new market conditions.
Be willing to experiment, take risks, make mistakes, and learn.

Competence
Area

Skills

Perform the key operations of your business or personal project
Communication, environment monitoring, problem solving, technology implementation, use of interpersonal and organisational skills
Written and oral communication, technical management, and organizing skills

Organize and efficiently manage the operations
Planning and goal setting, decision making, human resources management, marketing, finance, accounting, customer relations, quality control, negotiation, business launch, growth management, compliance with regulations skills, accounting
Balance short-term and long-term goals
Utilize time and manage workload efficiently

Self-control and discipline, risk management, innovation, persistence, leadership, change management, network building, and strategic thinking
Personal maturity (self-awareness, willingness and ability to accept responsibility, emotional development, and creative ability)
Identify opportunities and create solutions that capture those opportunities

Judging the quality of content, information, procedures or solutions
Being able to criticize a work product with respect to their credibility, relevance, and bias using a set of standards or specific framework
Criticism, auditing, appraisal, authentication

Sources: Based on a review of existing frameworks
(Elmuti, Khoury & Omran, 2012; Lichtenstein & Lyons 2001; OECD, 2018).

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RESOURCES

Cooney, T. M. (2012, November). Entrepreneurship skills for growth-orientated businesses. In Report for the Workshop on ‘Skills Development for SMEs and Entrepreneurship (Vol. 28). https://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/cooney_entrepreneurship_skills_HGF.pdf
Elmuti, D., Khoury, G., & Omran, O. (2012). Does entrepreneurship education have a role in developing entrepreneurial skills and ventures'effectiveness? Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, 15, 83. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Understanding-and-Acquisition-of-Entrepreneurial-A-Adeyemo/a8073dabe002dfc34cc9f7f4154640026a34ba17
European Comission, 2014. Focus on Entrepreneurial skills. https://skillspanorama.cedefop.europa.eu/sites/default/files/EUSP_AH_Entrepreneurial_0.pdf
Lichtenstein, G. A., & Lyons, T. S. (2001). The entrepreneurial development system: Transforming business talent and community economies. Economic Development Quarterly, 15(1), 3-20.http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1021.5346&rep=rep1&type=pdf
OECD (2018), Job Creation and Local Economic Development 2018: Preparing for the Future of Work, OECD Publishing, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264305342-en
Shalley, Hitt & Zhou. (2015). The Oxford handbook of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press.https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199927678.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199927678

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21st century skills help individuals of all ages to reinvent themselves throughout life, adapt to changing and diverse circumstances, and identify opportunities for growth amid differences.