Competences of business model innovation - "the DNA of BMI"

Business model innovation is based and created on behalf of "raw materials" such as knowledge or competences (Technology, Human Resource (HR), Organizational systems and culture). Societies are these days lacking competences (EU 2016) that are capable to create, capture and deliver enough Business Models (BM) to present or new Business Model Eco Systems (BMES). Many BM do not even reach BMES successfully because they lack the competence to reach the BMES. If this process continues too many times businesses - both established and non-established (startups) businesses are in risk of falling behind, falling out or as mentioned earlier not even reach the BMES. Access to excellent Business Model Innovation (BMI) competences are therefore extremely important and more and more critical to our society - but not least to businesses at all stages in their lifecycles. The hypothesis is that some Humans have BMI competences and it has for a long time been well known that some valuable BMI competences can be found among young university students. These students can create, capture and deliver new and different BM's - even BMES which have turned out to become some of the worlds largest businesses (Stanford University - Google (Wikipidia 2017(1), Harvard University - Facebook (Wikipidia 2017(2), Oxford University - Younoodle, Quid) (Wikipidia 2017 (3), MIT/Standford University - Younoodle (Youtube 2017). BMI competences among our young university students can however maybe and potentially be increased in the favour and in the value of our businesses and society if we are able to "spot" "the genes" or "DNA of BMI" in our students at a very early stage of their study at the university - maybe even when they enter the university. The paper intends to continue the journey of building up knowledge, language and a screening framework on BMI Competence - The BMI DNA. On behalf of a literature study on BMI competences and a previous preliminary study on a small sample of university student based business startups (Flarup et al, 2016) this paper increase the study to a large "databank" with quantitative and qualitative university student competence data. Combined with interdisciplinary research study of a large sample of engineering students at Aarhus University in Denmark a preliminary BMI competence profile related to BMI is proposed. Special focus in the longitudinal research has been on BMI projects in teams BMI Competences, characteristics and potentials as future BM's and BMI seems to be more based on interdisciplinary BMI.