Education, Training and Networking for Entrepreneurship in ...

Figure 13.1
People’s vocation affected by their education, training, competency and networking.
Adults in Denmark
Vocation
Networking
Competency
Training
Education
tinct effects upon networking, knowing a starter.
People are especially likely to know a starter
if they are educated, trained and competent.
These effects are pictured in Figure 13.1 (with
details in Figures 6.2 and 7.2), where a positive
effect is shown as a solid arrow, a negative effect
is displayed as a dashed arrow, and the
magnitude of the effect is indicated by the thickness
of the arrow.
How is people’s involvement in entrepreneurship
shaped by their learning? More specifically,
Chapter 8 addressed the questions, How is people’s
vocation – entrepreneur or not – affected
by their education, by their training, by their
competency and by their networking?
People’s education, training, competency and
networking have distinct effects upon their vocation,
whether they are entrepreneurs (prospective
starters, starters or owner-managers).
People with long higher education are especially
likely to be entrepreneurs (of any of the three
kinds). Trained people are more likely than untrained
people to be entrepreneurs, competent
people are more likely than less competent people
to be entrepreneurs, and people who network
are more likely to be entrepreneurs than
people who do not network with a starter. That
training, competency and networking enhance
likelihood of being entrepreneurs may not be so
surprising, but it is important that each makes a
distinct contribution to expanding people’s in-
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