wg robert arnkil - youth entrepreneurship

Youth EntrepreneurshipTowards enterprising skills and attitudes

in any career

Robert Arnkil and Eddy AdamsOECD LEED Forum, Stockholm

Thu 24th April 2014

The traditional way

• Waiting for the job to land on you

The new ecology

• Creating the job, enterprising, ’carving it out’, forming networks, connecting to workplaces

We need a new understanding how employment is created

Young people need enterprising skills and attitudes

– whether they are aiming for a salaried career, self-employment or setting up an enterprise

These skills are built everywhere – homes, hobbies, ’activities’, education, with peers, further training,

work practice and in work

Working life has changed

Working life and careers are full of transitions and have become more and more ’hybrid’

Hybrid = Combined, multi-purpose, multi-task…

Hybrid work: Work requires combinations of skills: technical, human relations, self-management, digital, enterprising…

Hybrid careers: : altering between salaried and entrepreneurial phases, self-employment, co-ops…

These kinds of skills can develop everywhere

Basic stages of education

Entrepreneurial training

Aiming for long salaried careers

Enterprise and self-employment

Salaried work and professions

Traditional training and careers

Work practice

Work practice

Basic stages of

education

’Hybrid’ training for hybrid

careers

’Hybrid’ training and careers

Work practice

Work practice

Co-op

Salaried

Both

Both

Entrepreneurial

Self-employment

Business participationBrokeragePeer learningLearning spaces

What are the key barriers to youth entrepreneurship?some examples...

1. Concept: Narrow and traditional understanding 2. Tradition: Working life is mostly understood as salaried work,

where careers and work are in fact becoming more and more ‘hybrid’

3. Curricuulms: Training and support for employment is divided, split into different ‘routes’, instead of an integrated approach

4. Security: Gaps, pitfalls and bureaucracies in social security5. Incubation: Inadequate ‘spaces’ to develop ideas and try

one’s wings6. Brokerage: Weak connections to entrepreneurs, role models

and peers as brokers

How to smartly scale-up support for youth entrepreneurship?

1. Integrated concept of enterprising and entrepreneurship

• Good ‘learning spaces’ for developing enterprising skills and attitudes

• Local partnerships are in a key role to develop an overall approach in providing spaces, brokerage and good transitions

• Young people need to be a real cocreation force in transforming education, counselling and business support – and learn to be active in this participation

• The business community needs to articulate their needs, provide spaces and brokerage, and participate in cocreation

• We need skilful brokers of many ‘species’: cultural and street savvy brokers, facilitators, specialists, people with experience of different ‘worlds’ and able to move sideways and vertically

Thanks for listening!

Robert ArnkilRobert.arnkil@armas.fiwww.arnkildialogues