The Factors Affecting the level of Digital Entrepreneurial Competences of University Students
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This paper represents an overview of the academic literature in regards to digital entrepreneurial competences and an effort to outline the research which will be focused on measuring the level of digital entrepreneurial competences of university students in Serbia. The paper proposes the creation of digital entrepreneurial competences assessment framework and the corresponding methodology which would serve as a basis for online digital entrepreneurial competence assessment tool development. The tool would enable the assessment of digital entrepreneurial competences of the university students in Serbia and the analysis of the factors underlying different levels of digital entrepreneurial competences. Factors ranging from personal characteristics of the students to contextual and socio-economic factors are taken into consideration.
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EU Science Hub - European Commission. 2020. “Learning And Skills For The Digital Era”. Available on https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/learning-and-skills. Accessed on September, 15.2020
Farsi, Jahangir, et al. 2017. "Institutional factors affecting academic entrepreneurship: The case of university of Tehran." Economic Analysis 47.1-2 : 139-159.
Fayolle, Alain, and Benoit Gailly.2015 "The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial attitudes and intention: Hysteresis and persistence." Journal of small business management 53.1: 75-93.
Geraniou, Eirini, and Uffe Thomas Jankvist. 2019. "Towards a definition of “mathematical digital competency”." Educational Studies In Mathematics 102.1: 29-45.
Kovacic, Zlatko, 1994. "Multivarijaciona analiza." Univerzitet u Beogradu, Ekonomski fakultet in Serbian language : 283.
Kuzminska, Olena, et al. 2018. "Study of Digital Competence of the Students and Teachers in Ukraine." International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications. Springer, Cham.
Lackéus, Martin. 2015. "Entrepreneurship in education: What, why, when, how." Background Paper
López-Meneses, Eloy, et al. 2020. "University students’ digital competence in three areas of the DigCom 2.1 model: A comparative study at three European universities." Australasian Journal of Educational Technology: 69-88.
Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh. 2018. "Digital entrepreneurship in a resource-scarce context." Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 25, 483-500. doi: 10.1108/jsbed-01-2017-0014
Québec, Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur, 2019. “Digital Competency Framework”, Retrieved from http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/ministere/Cadre-reference-competence-num-AN.pdf on 20 July 2020.
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Scuotto, Veronica, and Massimo Morellato.2013. "Entrepreneurial knowledge and digital competence: Keys for a success of student entrepreneurship." Journal of the Knowledge Economy 4.3 293-303.
Serbian Bureau of Statistics, 2020. Statistical Release. Statistics of social activities. Number 166 - Year LXX
Simović, Vladimir M., and Ivana S. Domazet. 2020. "An Overview of the Frameworks for Measuring the Digital Competencies of College Students: A European Perspective." Stagnancy Issues and Change Initiatives for Global Education in the Digital Age: 259-282.
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Van Deursen, Alexander, and Jan Van Dijk. 2011. "Internet skills and the digital divide." New media & society 13.6: 893-911.
Vuorikari, Riina, et al. 2016 “DigComp 2.0: The digital competence framework for citizens. Update phase 1: The conceptual reference model. No. JRC101254”. Joint Research Centre (Seville site).
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Zhao, Fang, and Alan Collier.2016."Digital entrepreneurship: Research and practice." 9th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business. 14-16 September, Warsaw, Poland.