Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20161128153529

Entrepreneurial education for students of non-economics educational programs

Ivan Štefanić orcid.org/0000-0001-7897-7653 ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, TERA TEHNOPOLIS d.o.o., Gajev trg 6, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia
Goran Šimunović ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Slavonski Brod, Trg I. Brlić-Mažuranić 2, HR-35000 Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Edita Štefanić orcid.org/0000-0002-2109-4515 ; Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Agriculture of Osijek, Kralja Petra Svačića 1d, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Ronald K. Campbell ; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Abstract

Entrepreneurial skills are necessary for all graduates who are planning their own start-up business. Those skills are asked more and more by employers, even from fresh graduates of technical backgrounds. This paper compares two extracurricular programs involving students of four different, all non-economics programs from Croatia and the USA. Several challenges were identified during the research. Preparing and executing entrepreneurial educational programs for students with very uneven level of relevant foreknowledge was one of them. Integration of classroom and e-learning methods and achievement of an effective combination of being educational, interesting and attractive in the same time were additional challenges. Gender of the participants, previous education, entrepreneurial background of their families and immediate plans upon the graduation were determined as influencing variables on their satisfaction with the program.

Keywords

business idea generation; business planning; education; entrepreneurship; students

Hrčak ID:

185445

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185445

Publication date:

31.7.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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