Nebatraining

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North European Business Academy
NEBA
Rautatienkatu 19-21
15110 Lahti
Finland

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WHO IS AN ENTREPRENEUR – INNOVATIVENESS AS A CRITERIA FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

How important is innovativeness for entrepreneurs and small business managers. Some academic scholars state that entrepreneurs are innovative and small business managers are not. Innovativeness has been seen one of the differentiating factors to separate the small business managers out of entrepreneurs. Is this really so, and is it wise to think that small businesses are not entrepreneurial?

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) international academic research and it is covering different areas of entrepreneurship in their research. Innovation is seen as an important factor to develop the economy globally. This is the reason GEM is focusing to study also innovativeness. In the latest 2022 published research they were studying the proportion of adults starting or running a new business with products or services that are new to their area, their country or the world. Or other dimension of business innovation is introduction of new technologies and procedures. With both definitions, innovativeness in the world among entrepreneurs was at highest degree ca. 10% and in many countries less than 1% of the entrepreneurs participated into the research. In practice, and confirmed by successive GEM data, new businesses introducing unique products are very few.

According to GEM Report the innovativeness among entrepreneurs internationally is not very high. Fast majority of entrepreneurs are operating with little or hardly no innovativeness. This widely respected GEM report is stating that innovativeness is a rare feature among entrepreneurs. This is not stating that innovativeness would not be good for business success, but it is observed as a feature which seldom exists among entrepreneurs.

I propose the division into two groups, entrepreneurs and small business managers, based on innovativeness of the business activity, should be re-considered. Small business managers or in other terms entrepreneurs in small firms are usually risk taking and active operators in local business environment, which are marks of entrepreneurial activity.

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Do you want to develop your business by improving the leadership skills?

NEBA online training offers practical results for companies, managers and teams – our goal is to help you to grow your business and become more profitable!

Our solutions include a Business Leadership Program (appr. 30 study points), a Career Guidance Module for managers and their team members, and training modules which can be tailored to your needs.

NEBA online training offers an affordable and efficient way to enable the company to reach better business results. The NEBA training is beneficial in many ways – it helps to improve the business and leadership skills, gives tools for boosting career development and offers a possibility for personal growth. Participants will also receive a personal certificate for completing the courses.  There are no academic or other pre-requirements for this program. The cost-effective NEBA online training courses can be studied anytime and anywhere, while working.

Read more about the NEBA Business Leadership Program

 

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What happens to university students after graduation?

Many university students face a difficult decision after graduation – where to find a job. For many of them the best solution can be entrepreneurship.

We offer online entrepreneurship training and career guidance with academic certificate for universities and university students. The goal of the NEBA training is to help your students to succeed in their working life and achieve better career positions. The practical NEBA training solution features an entrepreneurship academy tailored for universities, a career guidance program, accreditation, literature to support academic requirements and a career guidance module.

Our solution offers many benefits for the universities. In many countries, encouraging entrepreneurship matches the government strategy, and the cost-effective NEBA online training makes it easier for the universities to fulfil government expectations.

Offering online training with an international partner – with highly valued Finnish education background – creates a modern and positive image for the university and makes the university more appealing for the students. The compact and practical NEBA online training solution supports the current curriculum and as it extends the course offering, it also helps the university to find new student groups and expand their offering outside existing student base.

Read more about what we offer for universities.

 

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Does your organisation want to assist people in self-employment and starting a business?

In many countries reducing unemployment and increasing the number of entrepreneurs is one of the main goals in the national strategies. At NEBA we can offer online training solutions for all organisations that want to support self-employment and help people to start new businesses.

The NEBA training makes it easier to help those who do not easily get employed by someone else, for example special groups. The NEBA solution is cost-effective and scalable – it can be applied to small groups of people as well as whole societies. It is easy to implement and does not need a lot of administration.

The NEBA online training solution guides people to be self-employed. The NEBA solution features an academy, tests and career guidance, and you can link it to existing training programs.

All kinds of people will benefit from the NEBA online training. People can start the training without an existing employment plan or business idea – the training will help them to find, identify and refine it. Anyone can start with the skills and knowledge that they already have!

We have 25 years of experience of training unemployed people and helping people to start businesses. With us you can create more jobs with less money!

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Do you want to help people to build a successful career?

NEBA Career Guidance helps students to find a career or a job that fits their education, skills and passion. In addition to helping individuals in their pursuit for an ideal career and job, career guidance also helps societies by increasing the employment rate of students.

The NEBA Career Guidance solution includes video lessons and exercises, an evaluation and summary of the skills of the students, resulting in a concrete career plan. The NEBA Career Guidance can be offered either as an online solution or as a combination of online and traditional learning (blended learning). In the future the NEBA Career Guidance also offers a module for teaching job-seeking skills.

NEBA Career Guidance offers many benefits. In addition to helping students find the right career and job, it also helps them ­– and their future employers – by improving job satisfaction and producing increased performance at work. By adding career guidance in their offering makes the university more appealing for the students and also makes it easier for the university to obtain external funding.

Our training is based on scientific research, and the methods and tools used will help people to transform their dreams into reality – this has been validated by thousands of students.