Identification and Construction of a Conceptual Entrepreneurship Competency Framework for Politics and Law Majors

Abstract

Entrepreneurship competency is taken as a key element for personal lifelong learning, active citizenship and employ ability in the knowledge society. As for the study of entrepreneurship competency, scholars in different countries have developed various entrepreneurship competency models or frameworks. These entrepreneurial competencies are diversified in their contents or covering aspects, most of them are mainly developed with emphasis on the tilt in business or engineering majors, however, there is no specific research concerning entrepreneurship competency for politics and law majors in higher vocational colleges of political science and law, of which the training goal is cultivating political and legal talents for grassroots, making that the quality requirements and the talent training standard are different from those majors in other universities or any other vocational colleges. Therefore, constructing a set of entrepreneurship competency framework applicable for politics and law majors will make up for this gap and enrich the entrepreneurship competency content and finally broaden the deeper understanding of entrepreneurship education. The study was conducted in three phases: identification of constructs and sub constructs from the literature review and documents analysis in phase I; identification of constructs and sub constructs from interviews (n=12) in phase II; and content and face validity of the constructs and sub constructs in phase III. Data analysis was conducted by utilizing the Nvivo 12 plus software. A conceptual entrepreneurship competency framework was generated since the constructs and sub constructs were identified and classified during the research.