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Business Competences Forum (BCF) was established in 2008 at Wroclaw University of Economics (WUE). The mission of the Forum is to train students, develop their business acumen and connect business professionals with academic knowledge. Business Competences Forum addresses its offer mainly to WUE students. Within five years the BCF hosted around 120 managers and business professionals. Although the organization is relatively young, after five years it is finally able to evaluate a business individual as an academic instructor. The results concur with our initial hypothesis that individuals with strong business practicum are very eager to share their experiences (e.g. how to run your own business) with the students and are completely competent to do so. However, the main problem with sharing those experiences is misunderstanding between academic instructors (theorists) and business professionals (practitioners) as it comes to the right role and right place of spreading knowledge skills among people with experience of the theoretical and practical experience.
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