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Competence based entrepreneurship in Jordan.

NEBA was asked to train the TTT-program in Luminos Technical University, Amman Jordan. Luminos is a great example of modern and highly developed college, with motivated stuff and high-tech equipment and premises.

During this training we were explaining how to teach entrepreneurial programs with entrepreneurial way and methods. To boost and promote entrepreneurial activity by competence-based entrepreneurship, we need to operate in entrepreneurial ways too. After the training teachers felt they are more qualified to teach and promote entrepreneurship with entrepreneurial pedagogy.

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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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NEBA blog: Teaching the teachers – pedagogical training for new teachers in Burundi

We have been running a pilot project for training new entrepreneurs in Burundi together with Fida International and its local operators. During 2020 and 2021 we have trained 5 + 20 + 12 students on NEBA’s Online Business Startup training courses. New businesses have started, and some are still on the process to start.

TTT Students. Photo Jouni Suonpää. NEBA.
TTT Students actively learning how to teach adults in an entrepreneurial way.
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NEBA in Burundi

NEBA works together with Fida International at Burundi to train new entrepreneurs. Our program has advanced into second stage and local tutors have taken responsibility of guiding new students through entrepreneurship study program. We are looking rewarding results.

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NEBA blog: The importance of recognizing what you have in your hands

You can use only those resources that you know you have.

Do you know what you have? 

Is it clear to you what you have in your hands? Do you know what your strengths are? We have different things in our hands. For example, we have abilities, skills, attitudes, information, knowledge, know-how, experience, networks, personality, and many other things.

Have you ever really thought of what you have in your hands? If not, then now is the time to make this clear to you.

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NEBA blog: Call to entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is not a genre for every man or woman. The world’s shortest route to work from a thought to an action is just too long for some. Others will lose their night’s sleep when they have to live in uncertainty. Some find courage and taking risks only in the dictionary. The rest are horrified by the thought of selling themselves and their own competence. Not everybody is fit to be an entrepreneur. There is nothing wrong with that.

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