Over the past two decades, the digital revolution has changed how the labour market matches people with jobs. Nowadays, people find their jobs mainly online. In addition, employers increasingly manage their HR and recruitment processes with IT. At the same time, modern job matching instruments put skills at the centre of their job matching processes. Talent platforms like job boards, social media platforms and crowdsourcing marketplaces have become the cornerstone for the functioning of the labour market. The European Commission has recently launched a video showing how ESCO can support employers and jobseekers facing these new digital labour market challenges. The video includes testimonials of professionals from small and major digital companies highlighting the current difficulties to recruit the right people with the right skills and how ESCO offers a multilingual effective solution, which helps both employers and jobseekers in their recruitment and job matching processes. Moreover, ESCO can be used for assessing big data from the labour market and on online job vacancies, thus facilitating the development of skills forecasting and improving skills intelligence gathering related to the labour market.

If you look at the matter from a spherical point of view, you will notice that the concept of entrepreneurship is divided in different stages. And although entrepreneurship, as a whole, might not be easy or possible to teach, some stages might be:

• The Idea Stage. To be an entrepreneur you need an idea to build on. The original idea that will be giving birth to your company. And no one can teach you how to think and innovate. The idea will have to be something that you will come up with on your own.
• Setting up a business plan is the second stage. You need funding and the right business plan will be able to give you that funding. Now this stage can be taught. Business departments in colleges and universities all around the world have classes that focus on teaching future businessmen and businesswomen how to create successful business plans.
• Setting up the company, after you receive the funding is the next stage. This is where things get a little tricky. Although the way you are going to be choosing your employees might follow a certain pattern, you also need, what entrepreneurs call, critical way of thinking. The details will be based on the original idea as well as the future that you visualize, for your business. No one can teach you how to think and judge based on the needs of your company because no one knows them apart from you.
• Last but not least we have the evolution stage. You have created your business plan. You got the funding you needed and you hired your employees. Now is the time for you to put your ideas into practice and start evolving them and here is where creativity comes in. Creativity skills cannot be taught in a classroom. They are acquired through experience and through creative thinking processes. One cannot learn to be innovative and entrepreneurial, while on desk duty.  You need to explore things, use your imagination, question assumptions and connect information in order for you to achieve the best result.
  

Some entrepreneurial skills can be taught and others cannot. “The key factor is motivation.” The teachers need to be motivated in order to teach important parts of entrepreneurship to students and students need to be motivated in order to understand the importance of the entrepreneurship skills and learn them. “Entrepreneurship can, partially, be taught.” But without imagination, innovation and a thirst to meet the unknown people will not be able to become true entrepreneurs.

In some ways it can be easier to start a new business based on the idea of Digital Entrepreneurship - there are no changes required - just set up a new business environment that supports your digital business model. Restarting and implementing the digital tools step by step can be more difficult since you need to take care of the existing business and the customers and other relations you have worked so hard to reach. In that case you need to create a "step-by-step" digitization plan to secure the change. Depending on if you are a solopreneur or have employees you also need to involve your staff or partners in the process. Maybe you need to replace staff/partners to get the required competences into your business - or maybe start a training process in parallel with the change.
Whatever it takes - you need to analyze the situation and start moving in the direction of a digitally supported or digitally based business.

We all know that a great deal of jobs are created by SMEs and still many governments believe that large enterprises, together with public organizations,  are the base for employment. In South Korea an article in the Korea Herald gives us some interesting perspectives on the situation there - not only for the enterprises themselves but also for the individuals working in them. 

"In 2014, small and midsized enterprises accounted for 99.9 percent of the total number of local businesses, hiring nearly 88 percent of workers, showed figures from the Korea Federation of SMEs."

If you are an Entrepreneur with some experience you have probably already faced several of the challenges that Dan Western, founder of the Wealthy Gorilla,  mentions in this article posted by David Seagraves. 
If you are working with entrepreneurs and individuals on their way to become entrepreneurs - these are 8 challenges that you need to prepare them for. To the article...

In this article from Arabian Business.Com you will find an interesting activity going on to make Dubai a startup hub for international businesses. You can find a number of key activities and key resources that it takes to support the growth of international startups and  the effort to bring the competences and knowledge required. 
This attempt to put DUbai on the global map of entrepreneurship and startups includes "Intrapreneurship" as a strategy to bring more ideas and innovative services to existing businesses and public organizations
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