**Dimensions** * *[[Tool Attributes]]:* #framework #article #use-case * *[[origin]]:* #research-driven * *[[Stakeholders]]:* #business-managers #educators #entrepreneurs #researchers #decision-makers #academic-commuity #scientific-community * *[[Value Generation]]:* #sustainable-value * *[[Sustainability Strategy]]:* #capacity-building #strategic-planning [Toward a Validated Competence Framework for Sustainable Entrepreneurship](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1086026617697039) The paper aims to validate a framework for sustainable entrepreneurship. They build on [Lans et al. (2014)]([Redirecting](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.036)) framework. The framework has the following elements: - **Systems thinking competence**: The ability to identify and analyze all relevant (sub)systems across different domains (people, planet, profit) and disciplines, including their boundaries - **Embracing diversity and interdisciplinary competence**: The ability to structure relationships, spot issues, and recognize the legitimacy of other viewpoints in business decision-making processes; be it about environmental, social, and/or economic issues - **Foresighted thinking competence**: The ability to collectively analyze, evaluate, and craft “pictures” of the future in which the impact of local and/or short-term decisions on environmental, social, and economic issues is viewed on a global/cosmopolitan scale and in the long term - **Normative competence**: The ability to map, apply, and reconcile sustainability values, principles, and targets with internal and external stakeholders, without embracing any given norm but based on the good character of the one who is involved in sustainability issues - **Action competence**: The ability to actively involve oneself in responsible actions for the improvement of the sustainability of social—ecological systems - **Interpersonal competence**: The ability to motivate, enable, and facilitate collaborative and participatory sustainability activities and research - **Strategic management competence**: The ability to collectively design projects, implement interventions, transitions, and strategies for sustainable development practices. This table adds to the competence above. Some but not all overlap: ![[Previous Versions/Version 1/Files/Screenshot 2021-08-13 at 6.02.59 PM.png]] [[Key Competencies in Sustainability]] [[Previous Versions/Version 1/3 - collections/mindset and competence development]]