Preparing tomorrow's health entrepreneurs: a collaborative multi-stakeholder approach to identifying core competencies and training needs of future professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health systems face complex and multifaceted challenges that require health professionals (including clinicians, nurses and other health workers) to be equipped with entrepreneurship and innovation (E&I) competencies. However, the integration of E&I training within health university curricula remains largely underexplored across different countries and educational contexts. This study aimed to identify core E&I competencies and aligned training needs for future health professionals through a structured, multi-stakeholder approach.

Methods

Shaped within a value-focused thinking framework (systematically linking competencies as end goals with educational topics as means to achieve competencies), the study comprised three stages: (1) a scoping review (ScR) combined w

SUBMITTER: Mascarenhas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12570624 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature