Entrepreneurial learning, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2012.
Original scientific paper
Process of acquiring entrepreneurial competencies from training company to student enterprise
Dragan Stanković
; Visoka škola za ekonomiju, poduzetništvo i upravljanje „Nikola Šubić Zrinski“, Obrazovna grupa Zrinski, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Silvija Peroš
; Visoka škola za ekonomiju, poduzetništvo i upravljanje „Nikola Šubić Zrinski“, Obrazovna grupa Zrinski, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Igor Čizmadija
; Visoka škola za ekonomiju, poduzetništvo i upravljanje „Nikola Šubić Zrinski“, Obrazovna grupa Zrinski, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper describes the concept of acquiring entrepreneurial competencies from the training company, as an interdisciplinary subject within secondary education, to the actual establishment and work in a student enterprise. Namely, entrepreneurs often point out the problem of the labor market which doesn’t get a sufficient number of educated and competent experts, after finishing their education. Young graduated economists don’t possess enough knowledge and skills in order to apply their accumulated knowledge, and small and medium-sized entrepreneurs don’t have the time to introduce trainees into business, so they rather hire experienced candidates. In order to reduce the problem of young graduated economists, on the basis of experiences from training companies from around the world, there has been created a program which enables pupils in secondary schools of economics (and not only), through the subject Business operations of training companies (BTC), to simulate real business operations, in intervals of 2 to 3 lessons a week, i.e. 70 to 105 lessons a year, making them acquire competencies, necessary for employment in the labor market. By continuing their education on institutions of higher education, primarily economic ones, students apply their present and new knowledge through student professional practice. However, the establishment of a student company is a huge innovation, within an institution of higher education, where through tutorship students dimension their knowledge and apply it in concrete business situations.
Keywords
entrepreneurial skills; labor market; student enterprise
Hrčak ID:
130200
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Publication date:
1.6.2012.
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