Digital Entrepreneurship Education: a challenge for competency-based training in universities
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digital entrepreneurship, competency, higher education, mixed research, filed of knowledge, genderAbstract
This article focuses on the analysis of digital entrepreneurship as a transversal competence for university students. We take as a starting point the EmDigital (Digital Entrepreneurship) model that includes four areas of competence. The aim of the study was to analyse the digital entrepreneurship competence of final-year university students. It is a mixed research that includes a survey of university students (representative cluster sampling) and interviews with successful digital entrepreneurs (non-probabilistic convenience sampling). Two ad hoc instruments have been used and previously validated. The sample of final year undergraduate students who participated in the survey was 1108 and the sample of successful entrepreneurs interviewed was 20. Our main results show that although students perceive themselves as having average competences for digital entrepreneurship, there are significant differences depending on the branch of knowledge of their university studies. Moreover, there are some differences in terms of gender. The interviewees agree on the importance of training university students for digital entrepreneurship skills and the need to consider this competence as basic skill in formal education.
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