Youth Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Countries

Holienka, Marian; Pilková, Anna; Jančovičová, Zuzana

doi:10.15678/eber.2016.040407

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“…Holienka et al, 2016a), was found to be significant also within the population of V4 university students. It seems that university environment does not eliminate the gender bias of entrepreneurial activity.…”

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“…Regarding the latter, increase in the skills and knowledge relevant to entrepreneurship resulting from educational process shall lead to increased entrepreneurial propensity, as belief in having skills, experience and knowledge has been broadly confirmed as significant drivers of youth early-stage business (e.g. Holienka et al, 2016a). According to a study by Turker and Selcuk (2009), if a university provides adequate knowledge and inspiration for entrepreneurship, the possibility of choosing an entrepreneurial career might increase among young people.…”

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“…First, as for gender, males generally exhibit higher entrepreneurial propensity within the overall population (Holienka et al, 2016b) as well as among the youth (e.g. Holienka et al, 2016a), being influenced by various gender-related attributes, such as opportunity perception and self-confidence to name a few (Langowitz and Minniti, 2007). Second, increase in age is generally linked with accumulation of human and social capital (e.g.…”

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Drivers of Student Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Four Countries: Guesss Evidence

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2017

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The aim of our paper is to find out what drives student entrepreneurs in Visegrad (V4) countries (i.e. the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) in their business activities. Our analysis is built on 2016 data from GUESSS project -an extensive academic study on student entrepreneurship, and our main sample comprises of 15,971 V4 university students. Potential drivers from individual human and social capital characteristics, perceived institutional support, and demographic attributes are examined, using the logistic regression method. Applying a unique perspective and distinguishing between different types of student entrepreneurs, we focus especially on promisingly sustainable student entrepreneurs with already active businesses, who plan to continue them after completing their studies. According to our results, gender (being a male), increasing age together with dropping number of years to finish studies, intensity of entrepreneurship education, studying in a business-related field, and having entrepreneurial parents significantly drive student entrepreneurship inclinations during their university studies.

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“…Demographic characteristics include mainly gender and age, with being female inhibiting entrepreneurial activity (e.g. Zamfir et al, 2013;Holienka et al, 2016) and increasing age being its driver (e.g. Minola et al, 2014;Zamfir et al, 2013;Simoes et al, 2016).…”

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“…Individual attributes studied for their effect on entrepreneurship include personality traits, such as risk-taking, need for achievement or autonomy, creativity, innovativeness or locus of control (Rauch and Frese, 2012), then entrepreneurship competencies (Unger et al, 2011) and education. There are ambiguous evidences on effect of education in general (Davidsson and Gordon, 2012;Minola et al, 2014), so its exploration is directed to more specific perspectives, such as exposure to special entrepreneurship education or entrepreneurship-related field of study (Holienka et al, 2016). As for contextual factors, frequently established drivers of individual involvement are namely entrepreneurship-favoring climate and support from close social groups (e.g.…”

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Understanding Student Entrepreneurs: Doers, Procrastinators, Dreamers, and Abstainers

Holienka

Gál

Kovačičová

2017

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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HOLIENKA MARIAN, GÁL PETER, KOVAČIČOVÁ ZUZANA. 2017. Understanding Student Entrepreneurs: Doers, Procrastinators, Dreamers and Abstainers. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 65(6): 1935Brunensis, 65(6): -1944 Entrepreneurship as one of the potential career paths is an actual phenomenon among university students all around the world. However, as shown by recent GUESSS (Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey) findings, the action-intention patterns are rather varied. While a bunch of students already start their businesses (= "doers"), few of them declare their intention to start-up after completing their studies (= "procrastinators"), and even greater share of student population indicate a postponed intention to start a business in the mid-range future (= "dreamers"). Of course, a considerable proportion of students exhibit no inclination towards entrepreneurial career path (= "abstainers"). The aim of this exploratory study is to analyse differences between actual, would-be and "perhaps sometimes later" entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial abstainers, among European university students. To do so, we utilize the 2016 GUESSS project individual-level data from 25 European countries (n = 68,828), search for similarities and differences between the above-mentioned groups of university students, and analyse robustness of our findings by investigating for drivers of individual involvement in entrepreneurial activity. Our study contributes to the body of knowledge on this under-researched perspective on youth and student entrepreneurship.

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Youth Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Countries

Cited by 18 publications

References 31 publications

Drivers of Student Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Four Countries: Guesss Evidence

Drivers of Student Entrepreneurship in Visegrad Four Countries: Guesss Evidence

Understanding Student Entrepreneurs: Doers, Procrastinators, Dreamers, and Abstainers

Overview of Selected Studies on GEM Indicators and SDGs

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