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Financial markets may set the price for assets, but an enduring economic performance is generated from having the right skills. Although everybody agrees on the existence of the value of human capabilities, financial practice troubles to detect it in full. The question this book tries to solve is: How can you use the tools of financial evaluation to side your intuition when investing in entrepreneurial business and competence growth? The solution proposed is based on the concept of human skills as a productive factor, contributing to business economics. In the case of Entrepreneurial Businesses, skills contribution to corporate performance is a key driver but pullulates from the entrepreneur so that her/his productivity is strongly joined to that of the capital employed into the company.
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Mantovani, G.M. (2017). The Root: Why Competence has Value. In: The Financial Value of Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36537-8_1
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