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The purpose of the paper is to increase our understanding of why firms, specifically SMEs, participate in a program for competence development. More specifically, we focus on two questions: (a) What are the driving forces for SMEs to participate in a programme for competence development? (b) To what extent is the pattern of observed driving forces related to the strategies for competence development that are used in the firms?