Thus, their ability to be innovative and adaptable is smaller
(Pedroso et al. 2005: 83). Moreover, there is also a lack of competences and low educational
levels among employers/entrepreneurs themselves. This helps to explain
some of the difficulties in the adaptation to the new highly competitive international
market, as well as some of the resistances towards experiences of joint working. In
fact, it reinforces an “individualist entrepreneurial culture” that creates important obstacles
to the development of relationships based on mutual trust (Valadas 2003;
Valadas 2006).