Seniors

Overview

With the ongoing demographic change and population aging in Europe, supporting entrepreneurial skills and becoming self-employed could be considered as innovative ways to continue the professional activity for middle-aged group workers (50+) (OECD, 2019).  Like all entrepreneurs, older people face certain barriers when starting a business,. These include difficulties with mastering digital skills, health issues or social isolation. Economic sustainability of the businesses established by senior entrepreneurs is often not the primary goal in these undertakings, and they seem to have more socially oriented goals. These demographic changes also affect business incubation support services because a new growing client group is emerging.