About these theme you can do a research in EU documents on Entrepreneurship education, and on GEM REports.

Maybe useful solution is to use the concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) with Covin/Slevin scale measuring 3 dimensions of EO, inattentiveness, proactiveness and risk taking. You might also add other EO dimension as competitive advantage and independence.

There is an article  a literature review and development agenda", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research

This a paper of Siwan Mitchelmore and Jennifer Rowley

The article starts with a review of the development of the concept of competence, with particular reference to its use in the context of management competencies. It then draws together views on the notion of entrepreneurial competence before exploring and summarising research on the link between entrepreneurial competencies and business performance and growth. A core section then compares the models of entrepreneurial competencies cited in the literature, and on this basis proposes a set of entrepreneurial competencies which can be used as the basis for further research and practice. Finally, the different perspectives adopted by researchers to the measurement of entrepreneurial competencies are reviewed.

Sorry to tell you, but entrepreneurial competencies is quite a fuzzy concept and discussed as such in the literature. It depends on your research questions and your chosen definition for entrepreneurial competencies (motives, skills, knowledge, ...). What do you want to examine? Maybe I can help you. I did an intensive literature research on this broad topic recently. 

Dear all, thanks a lot for your suggestions - @helena, thank you, I know these documents but the original source of the items seems not to be very clear in the appendices, unfortunately - @Aleksandra, thanks very much, I worked already with the construct of EO, but when I read publications in the context, I thought about the competencies construct - @MarieFlorence, thank you, I ve seen that. Very good literature review, thank you. - @Muhammad, thanks for Alsos&Kolvereid (1999), I was working with an Disseration of TU Munich, that used their scale as well - @Charlott, thanks very much, I am interested in measuring ex-ante/ex-post the effect of our entrepreneurship education we are doing with future Media Professionals (no Business Students). As far as I have seen, the complexity of the construct might be of interest, I have seen it as a combination of Attitude, Skills, Knowledge and Intention. If you have any further hints that might be great.

1- Search entrepreneurial competencies. there is good literature about it.

 2- For a good article see "The competitiveness of small and medium enterprises

A conceptualization with focus on entrepreneurial competencies".

If you want to have items see these two theses:

1- The competitiveness of small and medium enterprises A conceptualization with focus on entrepreneurial competencies

2- The competitiveness of small and medium enterprises A conceptualization with focus on entrepreneurial competencies.

you can find all of them in internet.

Thank you very much Hesamedin! Best wishes to Teheran, B

Why not keep it simple? Rate of return.

Dear Peter, simple is always good! But to measure a rate of return, a venture must have been founded. I am interested in evaluating the change of entrepreneurial competencies in the context of entrepreneurship education at universities. Question is: Have entrepreneurial competencies changed significantly if we compare ex-ante/ex-post evaluation of an entrepreneruship university course. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you!

Entrepreneurship is not a reasonable subject for university education. Instead, it embodies such things as the willingness to take risk, the willingness to abandon bad ideas, and the internal fortitude to get up and go . . . to overcome resistance. Lists such as the ability to do accounting have almost nothing to do with entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship is a feature of family values and cultural values. Children should be told tales of their grandparent who was a peddler or store owner or tinkerer. Their attention should be drawn to successful entrepreneurs in their neighborhood, region, and nation, in sequence as age appropriate.

Dear Britta,

Peter's answer is worthy to be considered..

Your question is not regarding entrepreneurship but entrepreneurship education which are two different things. Competence in education does not guarantee success in business but may be success in education. I believe that   inventory your mentioned is nothing to do with entrepreneurship but only education.

I believe that Hans inventory is based upon the assumption that entrepreneurial education is positively related to entrepreneurial competence. Majority of competent entrepreneurs have not stepped into a college even in a rainy day (rural entrepreneurs).

Upananda

Dear all, dear Upananda,

thank you for your support. This is a very very good aspect, since most of the inventories I have seen thus far were used in the context of (successful) entrepreneurs but not within the context of entrepreneurship education, with the (again very special) focus on higher education.

Do you have any suggestions within that context, that focus on entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial competencies within that context?

Thank you very much in advance!

B

Dear Britta,

Thanks Britta for your comment.

You have already stepped into the research question. What is the effect/influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial competencies.

Select a group of entrepreneurs who have not received such education and compare competencies with a similar group who received entrepreneurship education following theoretical  sampling  principles and techniques. Then develop measures to assess their competencies.

Read Shane (2003); eisendardt (1989); and per Davidson (2005)

Upananda

You can find the enclosed article of mine of some interest.

Regards,

MV

Hi Bretta,

It is unnecessary to measure entrepreneurial competencies of students who are still studying entrepreneurship.  Students can get perfect marks in the evaluation tool but still not a guaranty of success in business. Also, they are still in the process of developing the entrepreneurial competence. On the other hand, you can conduct study on entrepreneurial competencies of  top local entrepreneurs and share the results. Regards,

Dear Virginia, thanks a lot for your comment.

To all that might be interested in that topic, I just found a study on entrepreneurial competencies right here on researchgate:

Morris et al (2013): A Competency-Based Approach on Entrepreneurship Education: Conceptual and Empirical Implications can be found here:

Article A Competency-Based Perspective on Entrepreneurship Education...

You coul use Convin & Slevin (1989) scale to measure entrepreneurial orientarion (EO). This concept is applied to organizations.