FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND EDUCATION ELEMENTS OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEM

Abstract

This work presents a literature review on the Human Capital (HC) factor as part of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem. The research mainly is focused on a detailed investigation of the theories and concepts of HC, based on education as the main focus of the HC. This work explores the research of Gary Becker (1962), one of the main influencers in the fields of HC and Education. His work has been mapped by observing its connectedness with the literature review, created with a beta tool using the “similarity metric” method which gives results with the Co-citation and Bibliographic Coupling using the Semantic Scholar databases. The first part is the introductory overview of the HC theories, significant researchers, and interconnectedness, the second part describes the relations of HC and education, while the third part includes a subtopic about entrepreneurial HC, an introduction developed for further research interests and the results and findings provides the summary of components for value creation in the HC.

Keywords

• human capital
• entrepreneurship
• education