EmDigital to Promote Digital Entrepreneurship: The Relation with Open Innovation

• Main Authors: Paz Prendes-Espinosa, Isabel María Solano-Fernández, Pedro Antonio García-Tudela
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
• Series: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and Complexity
• Subjects: digital entrepreneurship; competences model; higher education; EntreComp; DigComp; qualitative research
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/7/1/63

Entrepreneurial skills and digital competence are two basic competences in people’s education in the 21st century. They are also transversal competences in university degrees. We carried out an analysis of European models, which suggest areas and indicators within these two competencies (entrepreneurial and digital), with the ultimate goal of elaborating an original model of digital entrepreneurship competence, which we have named EmDigital. This analysis was performed by means of a qualitative approach and the combination of documentary analysis techniques, focus-group discussion and expert judgement through the Delphi method in a sequence of four consecutive phases. The proposed EmDigital model encompasses 4 areas, 15 sub-competences and 45 indicators. This model will be useful for the design of descriptive types of tests and certification tests, as well as for the design of formative proposals both for professors and for students of higher studies. Furthermore, the model will lead to new lines of research in the area of competence-based training.