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Boosting Entrepreneurship Capability in Work Transitions
No full textMassimiliano Costa (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Andrea Strano (Ca’
Foscari University of Venice)*
Abstract: Work personalization within cognitive capitalism (Alessandrini 2013)
demands universities to certify competences that can promote new forms of employability
(Boffo, Federighi, Torlone 2015), connected to global network innovation
(Steiner et al. 2013). Personal entrepreneurship becomes the heuristic
promoter of career changes (Federighi, Torlone 2013). This enables individuals
to ask new questions, to provide innovative solutions, and to create endeavours
that can extend the current limits of knowledge, or define new ones (Costa
2014). Methodology: The research analysed variables and, by doing so, strengthened
entrepreneurial competence (Morselli, Costa 2015; Costa, Strano 2016)
from an enabling perspective, involving more than one hundred people going
through a career change (Sen 2000). Based on a mixed method (Ponce, Pagán-
Maldonado 2015) the research was developed over four phases: 1) Self-assessment
(Pittaway, Edwards 2012) of entrepreneurial attitudes; 2) Recognition (Federighi
2014) of emerging competences from global innovation networks; 3) Reflective
thinking (Mortari 2003) and switching in terms of awareness (Mezirow 2003);
4) Capability (Sen 2006) of opportunities and resources for the instigation of entrepreneurial
action (Costa Strano 2016). Results: The data observed show that
during career changes the development of competences is positively linked to
age, education, and experience, above all when combined with enabling processes.
As for entrepreneurship, training contexts in the service industry prove
strategic, even if still too focused solely on the technical-informative dimension.
Furthermore, the results show that entrepreneurial training (Pittaway, Edwards
2012) becomes competence that can promote action starting from resources/opportunities
in various career changes (Costa 2014)
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