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Opiskelijat yhdistävät yrittäjyyden ja yrittäjyysosaamisen usein yrityksen perustamiseen, eivätkä niinkään yrittäjämäiseen toimintaan laajemmin. Oman yrittäjyysosaamisen sanoittaminen koetaan usein haasteelliseksi, koska suurimmalla osalla opiskelijoista ei ole oman osaamisensa tunnistamiseen tarvittavia metakognitiivisia taitoja. Tutkimuksessa selvitetään, miten korkeakouluopiskelijat hahmottavat yrittäjyyttä ja siihen liittyvää osaamista. Tutkimusaineisto koostuu fokusryhmähaastatteluista kolmannen vuoden kauppatieteen opiskelijoiden kanssa. Aineiston perusteella on tunnistettu kolme lähestymistapaa yrittäjyysosaamiseen, joiden avulla opiskelijan oman yrittäjyysosaamisen hahmottamista ja osaamisen kertymistä pystytään paremmin ymmärtämään. Tämä antaa tietoa opintoja ohjaavalle henkilökunnalle niin opiskelijoiden metakognitiivisten taitojen kehittymisestä kuin tavasta kommunikoida heidän kanssaan yrittäjyysosaamisen opinnollistamiseen liittyen. Tulosten pohjalta voidaan todeta, että korkeakouluopiskelijat tarvitsevat tukea yrittäjyysosaamisen sanoittamisessa ja tietoa yrittäjyyden opinnollistamisesta sekä yrittäjyydestä uravaihtoehtona., Undergraduate students often associate entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills with establishing a company and not as much with acting entrepreneurially. Students find verbalizing one’s own entrepreneurial skills challenging because the majority of undergraduates lack the necessary metacognitive skills to recognize their own know-how. The purpose of this paper is to study how undergraduate students understand entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competencies. Focus group interviews were conducted with third year business students. The study found three approaches regarding entrepreneurial competencies, through which the undergraduates’ sensemaking processes and accumulation of know-how can be better understood. This categorization provides valuable insights for university personnel, both as regards to the development of students’ metacognitive skills and the recognition processes of prior learning of entrepreneurial competencies. This study suggests that undergraduate students need support in verbalizing their know-how, as well as more information about recognizing entrepreneurial skills as part of their personal curriculum, about entrepreneurship in general and as a potential career choice.

The question of how actors perceive business opportunities has puzzled both researchers and practitioners for decades. In the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of things, many actors of the technology-intensive industries question how to use new technology to create value, and how to monetize new service concepts. In this paper, we focus on the next mobile communications technology, 5G, as one of the potential value-creators for the future that holds business opportunities for its utilizers and deployers. The concept of business opportunities is strongly associated with research on entrepreneurship (cf. Carlsson et al., 2003). Entrepreneurial opportunities consist of a set of ideas, beliefs, and actions that enable the introduction of goods, services, raw materials, and organizing methods in the absence of current markets for them (Sarasvathy et al., 2003). The research stream of entrepreneurial opportunities (cf. Alvarez & Barney, 2007, 2010; Dimov, 2007, 2011; Eckhardt & Shane, 2003) can offer new insights into the development of opportunities in high technologyintensive fields, and especially as regards the development of 5G. Strategies for opportunity identification, exploitation, and value creation are vital in the 5G era, as non-ICT traditional business sectors begin to deploy wireless technologies (e.g., factories, automotive, etc.). Researchers expect that 5G will change the business models and business ecosystems; it will also better address the evolving needs of customers (cf. Kliks et al., 2018). Unlike already existing mobile communications systems, 5G allows integration of vertical industries, e.g., energy, media, health, factories, and the automotive industry (5G-PPP, 2016). Thus, specialized companies will be able to provide services and establish positions in the value chains and actor networks. This is a major transformation compared to an environment dominated by bilateral relationships between mobile operators and their customers...