Digital games, which are increasingly integrating social components, offer the opportunity to weave soft skill development into more traditional subjects.

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Airbus, of course, has had some special help: soft loans, worth one-third of the development cost, from the German, French and British governments.

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These institutions are engaging with external partners to identify the hard and soft skills needed by graduates to succeed in entrepreneurial endeavors, and finding ways to integrate that skill development into the academic curriculum.

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