Case Study in North Macedonia: Entrepreneurial Learning and Training Needs Analysis

Authors

  • Ljubica Topuzoska Teacher, PhD, Head of the Department for International Collaboration University of Information Science and Technology St. Paul the Apostle Volgogradska 12, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

Keywords:

business, entrepreneurship, learning, startups

Abstract

This report provides and analyzes the training needs of potential entrepreneurs per sector in the Macedonian side of the cross-border area with Greece. The research is trying to achieve, explain and understand the priorities, missing skills and skills upgrade needed for the young people who are engaged with ICT enabled technology and aspire to become entrepreneurs. The report juxtaposes the findings with information on education background, personal skills and personality traits, gender and other relevant parameters. Also, complements the training needs analysis of the direct beneficiaries of the accelerator with interviews of people who were in their position a few years ago and have either become successful entrepreneurs or have failed in their enterprise. The research was seeking to learn what were the difficulties they face, what were the major challenges, what are the critical skills that young people need to acquire and what are the best ways of acquiring these skills. The research has been conducted as part of the project activities of the University of Information Science and Technology St. Paul the Apostle from Ohrid, Macedonia with the purpose to provide better opportunities to young people who aspire to become entrepreneurs, especially in the south-west region of the country. The main goal was to identify the skills gap among young people to establish business, as a starting point for the potential establishment of a business startup accelerator. Once the skills gap is identified, the University would develop an intense training, personalized mentoring, pitching events and workshops to assist in creating ICT-enabled startups.

References

G. Avnimelech. Mentorship Processes within Startup Accelerators, Social Science Research Network, 29 Apr 2019, pp 25-46.

S. Blank S., B. Dorf. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step by Step Guide for Building a Great Company, K&S Ranch, 2012.

S. Blank. Open Source Entrepreneurship, https://steveblank.com/2012/11/27/open sourceentrepreneurship/

S. Blank. Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything, Harvard Business Review, May, 2013https://hbr.org/2013/05

S. Covery. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Free Press, 2004.

W. Chan Kim and R. Mauborgne. Blue Ocean Strategy, Harvard Business Review Press, 2005.

M. Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success, Back Bay Books, 2011.

C. Duhigg. The Power of Habit, Random House Trade, 2014.

T. Ferris. Tools of Titans, Harper Business, 2016.

H. Grover and V. Goyal. Let’s Build A Company, India Penguin, 2020.

A. Groh, H. Liechtensstein, K. Leiser and M. Biesinger. Start Up Changes Everything, IESE Business School, Barcelona – University of Navarra, Spain, Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index 2018, https://blog.iese.edu/vcpeindex/macedonia

P. Jarvis. Company Of One Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business, Mariner Books, 2019.

Jomb, Accelerator business model, Journal of Business Models, 2020, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 1-21

J. Kaufman. The Personal MBA, Portfolio, 2020.

J. Knapp. The Design Sprint https://www.gv.com/sprint/

J. Knapp. Sprint:Solve big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days, Simon & Shuster, 2016.

D. Nath and S. Mitra. Funding Your Startup, India Portfolio, 2020.

A. Osterwalder , Y. Pignuer, G. Bernarda and A. Smith. Value Proposition Design: Hoe to Create Products and Services Customers Want, John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

] A. Osterwalder and Y. Pignuer. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers, Self-Published Thesis, 2010.

P. Shameen.. The Two Ways for Startups and Corporations to Partner, Harvard Business Review, 2019.

S. Shivakumar. The Art of Management, India Portfolio, 2022.

G. Vaynerchuk. Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too, Harper Business, 2018.

G. Vaynerchuk The Thank You Economy, HarperCollins e-books, 2011.

Downloads

Published

2023-01-28

How to Cite

Topuzoska, L. (2023). Case Study in North Macedonia: Entrepreneurial Learning and Training Needs Analysis. International Journal of Social Sciences: Current and Future Research Trends, 17(1), 64–74. Retrieved from https://ijsscfrtjournal.isrra.org/index.php/Social_Science_Journal/article/view/1246

Issue

Section

Articles