Marco focuses his research as well as his teaching activities on individual level enterprising competencies. Examples of such competencies are generating ideas for opportunities, taking action, perseverance, networking, teamwork, and persuasion. For research overviews of these competencies, see the website that Marco maintains: www.enterprisingcompetencies.com. He has developed several formats to study as well as practice these competencies, and conducts workshops and (short) courses in various countries and settings.