EntreComp Framework: A Bibliometric Review and Research Trends

Abstract

The European Entrepreneurship Competence (EntreComp) framework has been proposed by the European Commission in order to build consensus around a common understanding of entrepreneurship competence (knowledge, skills, and attitude). This study reports a bibliometric review of the research to date, addressing the EntreComp framework, based on documents published during the period from 2016 to June 2022. The research dataset was collected from Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) and included 37 articles. The bibliometric analysis includes citation, cooccurence and network analysis to represent the between countries and interorganizational collaboration, to identify relationships between documents topics. Along with the bibliometric analysis, a detailed description of characteristics for each article (study design and objectives, instruments, research findings, etc.) was also presented. Overall, this study provides insights regarding research addressing EntreComp framework, that could guide future research directions of practitioners/policy makers/researchers/etc. in the entrepreneurial competencies field and other interconnected domains.

Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Combining Entrepreneurial and Sustainable Competencies in Entrepreneurship Education

“…Thus, the existing research on entrepreneurial and sustainability competence frameworks has not considered GreenComp in comparison with EntreComp. Although there exists more research on EntreComp [39,40], GreenComp has received little attention so far [41]. Moreover, a thorough comparison of both is still missing.…”

“…A4 While there exists research on the EntreComp framework, for instance, Raţiu et al [39] or Joensuu-Salo et al [40], to date, no research has rigorously investigated EntreComp in conjunction with GreenComp. In their paper "EntreComp and GreenComp for Entrepreneurship.…”

The EntreComp Framework in Practice: A Case Study Linking Employability, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development

“…The Entrepreneurial Culture Programs developed for years by the regional government of the autonomous region of Extremadura (called in Spanish Junta de Extremadura) are aligned with the European Entrepreneurial Competence Framework (EntreComp Europe), launched in 2016 by the European Commission [39]. Since then, several academic studies have focused attention on this framework [40][41][42]. Both the European framework and the entrepreneurship policy of the regional government of Extremadura, are based on the idea that the early development of entrepreneurial skills contributes to regional development, as previous studies on the topic have shown [43][44][45].…”

A Sustainable Approach to Define Important Digital Skills of Digital Currency Users

“…Then, a presentation of the research questions, the methodology used, and the results of the research, is given. Using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method, a statistical analysis of the five axes of the questionnaire used (based on the DigComp framework), is performed in order to unveil latent relationships concerning the research questions of this study [2].…”