Education, Training and Networking for Entrepreneurship in ...

Age and training
Does training differ among generations in
Denmark and in other countries? Table 6.6
shows that young people in Denmark are far
more likely to have been trained than older
people, thus age is negatively associated with
the likelihood of having received training (the
association is statistically highly significant).
This is, of course, because training has become
a component of formal education in recent
decades, and also become offered in more
other organizational contexts during recent
decades in Denmark. The recent expansion of
training thus manifests itself in how training
depends on age in Denmark. The ratio of
youngest trained to oldest trained is 2,8 (namely
39% to 14%) and is indicative of the recent
expansion of training among the young people
in Denmark.
Is training expanding likewise in other nations?
In some nations, there is an even more penetrating
expansion, notably in Latvia where many
of the young people are trained but very few of
the older people have been trained (as a legacy
of the communist era, of course), Table 6.7. In
most other countries there is less expansion of
training, and, at the extreme, in Japan there is
apparently no expansion of training among the
young generations (consistent with Table 6.3).
Denmark has a high ratio of trained youngest to
trained oldest, 2,8, so only a few societies have
greater expansion, whereas most societies
(81% of the developed societies) have less expansion
of training.
This indicates that Denmark is among the societies
with the fastest expansion of training.
Education and training
Is training dependent on education? In our survey
of adults in Denmark, we ask people about
their highest education, namely whether they
have a vocational education, a short higher education
(less than three years), a medium higher
education (three to four years), a long higher
education (more than four years), or neither vocational
nor higher education (education will be
examined in the next chapter). The frequency of
training is shown in Table 6.8, for each educational
level.
Training is most frequent among those with vocational
education or short further education,
and training is least frequent among those with
long higher education (differences among educational
levels are statistically highly significant,
with probability value 0,003 in a chi-square
test). Perhaps surprisingly, the people with the
longest education are the ones least frequently
trained.
Table 6.8
Training in entrepreneurship, by education
Adults in Denmark 2008
Vocational Short higher Medium higher Long higher Neither
education education education education vocational
nor higher
education
Trained 27 % 29 % 23 % 17 % 22 %
Untrained 73 % 71 % 77 % 83 % 78 %
Sum 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
N adults 481 194 505 332 474
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