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Entrepreneur competence map
Twenty spokes, one per competence. Eight rings, from foundation at the centre to expert at the rim. Challenges do not chain — each one casts evidence onto several competences at once, which is why this is a wheel and not a tree. Select a challenge or a spoke.
Entrepreneur competence wheel Twenty spokes grouped into four coloured quadrants: ideas and opportunities, resources, into action, and emotions. Eight concentric rings mark progression levels. A polygon shows an example evidence profile.
Areas 1–3, their five competences each, and the numbering all follow EntreComp, the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (Bacigalupo, Kampylis, Punie & Van den Brande, 2016), which sets out fifteen competences across three areas on an eight-level progression.
Area 4 is an extension and is not part of EntreComp. It is drawn from Lackéus, whose action-reflection challenges group into Ideas, Resources, Actions and Emotions, and whose assessment approach is emotion-based. Treat area 4 as a proposal to be validated, not as a standard.
Every challenge must create value for someone outside the cohort — mentors and peers excluded (Lackéus, OECD 2015). Competence develops whether or not the value creation succeeds, so a failed ask still writes to the profile. Indicator scales are graded novice to expert using effectuation (Sarasvathy), where the expert–novice contrast is empirically documented rather than invented. The method of scoring by scaled behavioural indicators instead of Likert self-report follows Schelfhout, Bruggeman & De Maeyer (2016).
No instrument in this literature has shown that a competence profile predicts venture outcomes. This map evidences development, not destiny.