Entrepreneurial Competencies and Business Creation, A Research on Policies and Applications

Abstract

The theme of this study can be justified by the importance that European Union gives in promoting the culture of Entrepreneurship among young people, so that they can deal with more awareness and attitude to future educational and career choices. Set this as a premise, this research aims to give an answer to this question: is the Italian university system really meeting the European expectations in terms of developing sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among Italian university students. This article focuses on describing and analyzing the perception that Italian university students have about entrepreneurship in Higher Education. A quantitative research method was used (a questionnaire structured and applied to a sample of 1918 university students). The most significant results are: 71% of the students do not work; 7% are entrepreneurs and out of 71% students who do not work, 39% never had a work experience. However, most of the respondents show interest to start a business and this perception decreases over the years. Moreover, 58.4% do not believe that the university can help a student find a job and 57.6% believe that the university can help an entrepreneur, but only 12.8% actually. A Supranational Policy of Education indicates that Higher Education should develop competencies in students, especially those ones that are considered as key competencies for a student such as initiative, Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, but how effective these indications are in reality if, as percentages show, only a few students opt for an entrepreneurial career.

Entrepreneurs Network, Entrepreneurial Competence and Entrepreneurial Intention of Northern Nigerian Universities Students

“…In fact, Malekipour, Hakimzadeh, Dehghani and Zali (2018) stated that for individual to display the needed innovative behaviour and lunch a new business, there is need for EC as one of the vital factors to ensure successful life within and outside the business. More specifically, early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence positively predicted entrepreneurship (Cubico et al, 2015;Bergevoet & Woerkum, 2006).…”

“…Some of these factors include entrepreneurial education (Nowiński, Haddoud, Lančarič, Egerová, & Czeglédi, 2017;Teixeira, Casteleiro, Rodrigues, & Guerra, 2017), environmental factors (Kebaili, Al-Subyae, & Al-Qahtani, 2017), entrepreneurial orientation (Ibrahim & Lucky, 2014) to mention a few. Although, various studies (Ferrandiz, Fidel, & Conchado, 2018;Fuller, Liu, Bajaba, Marler, & Pratt, 2018;Roy, Akhtar, & Das, 2017;Teixeira et al, 2017;Zhou, 2012) have been conducted on several factors capable of enhancing entrepreneurial intention (EI) around the world, there is still paucity of research on the effect of entrepreneurial competency (EC) (Bagheri & Abbariki, 2017;Cubico, Oliveira, Bellotto, Formicuzzi, & Sartori, 2015;Pruett et al, 2008;Robertson, Collins, Medeira, & Slater, 2003) and entrepreneurial network (EN) (Hoang & Antoncic, 2003;Shu, Ren, & Zheng, 2018) in enhancing students EI.…”

Determinants of Business Sustainability among Micro Small Medium Entrepreneurship (MSMEs) in Selangor

“…Entrepreneurial competencies can be defined as the courage to take action from the ideas where it includes the creative thinking, able to take risk, plan and organize to accomplish the objective (Cubico, 2015). In sustaining MSMEs, the business should be occupied with the people that have the competencies to assess and analyse the problems, can be trusted, shows good ethic in business and able to observe the trend and dynamic environment in the market.…”

The determination of the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions of students in developing economies

“…Despite the fact that various previous studies have proved entrepreneurial education (EE) as a major factor to grow and develop the passion, spirit and entrepreneurial behaviour among the younger generation [10][11][12], many graduates failed to take entrepreneurship as an option. Thus, an indicating that apart from Entrepreneurship education, other factors such entrepreneurial knowledge [13], entrepreneurial skills [14] and entrepreneurial competency [15] may also have impact in inculcating entrepreneurial intention. Besides, the author of [16] argued entrepreneurial intention can only be possible when mixed with Entrepreneurship Education.…”