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This paper examines entrepreneurship. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: The paper has twofold goals. The paper reviews the culture of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competencies in Palestine. It is characterized by donor-supported and nongovernmental-initiated training. This demands an urgent active involvement of universities in the field of entrepreneurship that is shaped in the form of Research and Development as well as offering entrepreneurship academic programs. This comes in line with the emerging trend of offering courses and programs at universities worldwide. Furthermore, the paper proposes a soft computing-based entrepreneurial key competencies' model (SKECM). This tool is capable of predicting/judging the overall quality of entrepreneurial competencies. SKECM is based on the three-cluster, ten key entrepreneurial competencies developed and used by Empretec. A three-stage, 14 different models have been developed and validated by hundreds of randomly generated datasets. Measures were used to validate the adequacy of these models including, the mean average percentage errors and the maximum percentage errors. The best achieved values for these measures are 0.8511 and 6.3175, respectively. However, although the preliminary findings of the proposed SKECM model are promising, more testing is still required before stating the adequacy of applying the softcomputing modeling approach in the entrepreneurship field (This is to state that there are no financial competing interests (political, personal, religious, ideological, academic, intellectual, commercial, or any other) to declare in relation to this manuscript). For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.
Keywords: Entrepreneur, Competencies, Key entrepreneurial competencies, Neurofuzzy, Soft Computing, Modeling, Model
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* The SKECM model has been developed to assess the overall entrepreneurial competency of the various KECs including the overall entrepreneurial competency. A sample of SKECM first stage is as depicted in Fig. 3. To validate the models, datasets have been randomly generated in the range 1.0 to 10.0. That is, a 1.0 to 10.0 scale has been used to assess each EKCs and the overall entrepreneurial competency.
* It is assumed that such a scale represents four categories: POOR to cover the range between 1.0 to less than 3.49; SATISFIED to cover the range from 3.5 to less than 7.0; GOOD to represent 7.0 to less than...