Encouraging the creation of companies has become the leitmotif for solving the economic and social problems of states, especially when it comes to companies with real potential for growth, which constitutes the real levers of countries development. We focus on the profile of entrepreneurs who create small businesses and who can successfully increase their projects after a few years. They are the pillars of success insofar as the company is the projection of their characteristics. This document attempts to better understand the impact of entrepreneurial competencies on the growth of the company. The research was carried out using a questionnaire sent to 181 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME's) newly created. For the analysis of the results we have mobilized the method of structural equations. The results confirmed that the growth of the company is well influenced by managerial and networking competencies.

Within the framework of the fast and deep change facing global economy, environmental scanning becomes a main driver for competitiveness. It's an information system directed to the outside environment of the company which plays the role of an intelligent observer who continuously seeks to supply the managers with useful information for their strategic actions. The creation of a device dedicated to this end becomes nowadays an urgent need; however it is far from being easy to realize. It is a heavy process which can only develop within the framework of a collective learning, registered in a process of knowledge management.The survey has shown that in spite of the awareness of the importance of this practice, this activity remains punctual, unstructured, and especially related to the person of the manager who is essentially based on his own relational network.Accustomed to quazi-monopoly of power, the manager remains unmotivated for the idea of making his subordinates participate. This would lead us to deduct that the main obstacle facing the development of this practice is cultural, related to the values and the convictions which the manager shares with his employees. Indeed, environmental scanning is primarily a state of mind and an attitude before being a means and it is up to managers to know how to mobilize the staff so that they adhere to this behaviour.