Entrepreneurial learning, Vol. 2 No. 2, 2012.
Original scientific paper
Entrepreneurial Aspirations of the Faculty of Technical Sciences Students’
Vladimir Todorović
; Departman za industrijsko inženjerstvo i menadžment, Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad, Srbija
Željko Tekić
; Departman za industrijsko inženjerstvo i menadžment, Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad, Srbija
Mladen Pečujlija
; Departman za industrijsko inženjerstvo i menadžment, Fakultet tehničkih nauka, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Novi Sad, Srbija
Abstract
The paper investigates students’ motivation and attitudes toward starting up their own business. On basis of 178 collected responses from students of the final year at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (Novi Sad, Serbia) quantitative and qualitative analyses are conducted. Results show that majority of students (83.1%) had thought about starting up own business. Furthermore, 46% of students are still interested in starting up own or continuing family business. However, practice shows that young people give up an entrepreneurial idea before they even try. More important, students change their minds, from being employer to being employed – during studies. The results show that among students the most influential motivators are state policy and family, while educational system (teachers and lectures) is the lowest ranked. The main demotivators are financial risk and availability of finance. Based on these findings paper suggests establishment of the Center for Youth Entrepreneurship at the Faculty and University level, better approach to entrepreneurial education and overall promotion of entrepreneurship in public as main steps toward better results.
Keywords
preduzetničke težnje studenata; preduzetništvo mladih; Srbija
Hrčak ID:
130267
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Publication date:
1.12.2012.
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