Dr. Urs Hauenstein is the President of the International Council of Education and Management (ICEM), the Association of Swiss Quality Competencies and Qualifications (SQCQ), the Institute of Competencies and Qualifications in Switzerland (I-C-Q) and the International Network for Accreditation, Recognition and Dissemination in the UK (INARD). He serves as Honorary Professor for the University Agora Oradea Romania and as Visiting Professor for a range of other Universities in Europe and Eastern Europe. He is an Honorary Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, an Advisory Board Member for Internationalisation to the University of Lincoln and a Senior Fellow of Globethics Geneva.
Xpreneurship – Entrepreneurship as a key competency on the way to sustainability and holistic development
The concept of “Xpreneurship” and the different clusters of entrepreneurship activity in the world require entrepreneurship as a key competence on the way to sustainability and holistic development.
* X acts like a variable for e.g. Intra, Eco, Edu, Agri, Youth, Vocational Training, etc. and leads to Intrapreneurship, Ecopreneurship, Agripreneurship, Youthpreneurship, TVETpreneurship, etc.
We live and act in a world of disruptors like the Covid-19 pandemic, the fourth industrial revolution, the digitization, etc. We are implementing more and more artificial intelligence and virtual / augmented reality for smarter development within the world. For us it is important to carry out developments in a sustainable and holistic way. Entrepreneurs and stakeholders must share their resources equally and therefore integrate prioritization and effectiveness into their processes of action. With innovation and creativity, we can break new ground and put responsibility and ethics at the centre of change. Upskilling and Reskilling are giving Humanity a new status beside Technology.
The needed gesture will be therefore: How to make a virtue out of necessity or how to turn a crisis into an opportunity. Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum clearly shows that we need the “Great Reset” and the implementation of “Stakeholder Capitalism”.
The “Xpreneurship” concept shows how we can implement corporate behaviour in a better world with “social inclusion”, “going green” and the implementation of the UN SDGs. We are living and acting in a world of disrupters like the Covid-19 pandemic, the fourth industrial revolution, the digitization processes and are more and implement artificial intelligence and virtual/augmented reality for a smarter development. We have it is important to carry out developments in a sustainable and holistic manner. Entrepreneurs and stakeholders alike have to divide their resources and therefore integrate prioritization and effectiveness into their processes. With innovation and creativity, new paths can be followed with responsibility and ethics. The concept Xpreneurship shows how we can implement entrepreneurial behaviour to a better world with “Social Inclusion”, “Going Green” and the implementation of the UN SDGs.
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