What is Entrepreneurship Competencies

This chapter presents a literature review of the term competency given the importance of the term in a wide variety of domains, specifically in the education and training. More specifically, the concept is analyzed within the entrepreneurship domain since it has used it as a framework to study entrepreneurs and their performance with new venture creation and later its growth. The chapter also presents a review of entrepreneurship competency models which have been proposed by previous research under the iceberg model. In the end, a model of entrepreneurship competencies is introduced, paying close attention to the behavioral level competencies which can be developed throughout education basing on past research and in the iceberg model.