By: Anna Sacio-Szymańska (originally published at LinkedIN)
“Whoever imagines mental deep permeable barriers which actually do not exist and then thinks them away, has understood the world.”
Source: Heiner Benking, Futures of learning and negotiation, policy-making, and awareness/consciousness, https://futuresconference2017.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/benking.pdf
Recently, we have been carrying out an exploratory research with the aim to distinguish competences of a future-oriented entrepreneur. The activity has been performed within beFORE project, which is one of the Erasmus + Knowledge Alliances. The first step in the research was to screen the literature in the fields of futures studies, innovation management and entrepreneurship. The database of potential papers for analysis included scientific journals, popular economic press and social media sites (such as LinkedIn Pulse articles), and books. The reference list, that our internal project team decided to focus on is listed below.
On the basis of this analysis we extracted the following set of competences characterizing future-oriented entrepreneurs:
With regard to sector-specific knowledge and personal traits the characteristics recommended by cited sources were:
The above list was merely a tiny fraction of the overall 1500+ competences [sic!], which have been gathered so far by all consortium members of beFORE Knowledge Alliance project.
In our quest for the exhaustive set of competences we visited two conferences:
The first conference was co-organized by the Foresight Europe Network, FEN. Whereas, the second event was fully run by the International Society for Professional Innovation Management, ISPIM. Both networks, are the associated partners of our project.
Presented below, are sets of competences, which we have brought back from the two conferences:
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[1] Source: https://futuresconference2017.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/benking.pdf