Academic entrepreneurial attitudes in the assessment of economic faculties students

Abstract

The aim of the research is to analyse selected attitudes related to entrepreneurship and to present their significance assessment according to students of economic faculties. The empirical basis is built upon the results of the research conducted in March 2021 on a group of 270 students of the Poznań University of Economics and Business. As part of the questionnaire and using the 5-point Likert scale, the respondents assessed various features, skills and abilities that, according to the respondents, are key in the context of an entrepreneurial attitude. In addition to the general statistical analysis of the response, a factor analysis was also carried out that aims to reduce the number of variables to a few, the most important ones that highly describe the analysed problem. Based on the research conducted, it can be concluded that from the students’ perspective, the entrepreneurial attitude profile consists of a combination of personality types such as precursor, creator, rival, individualist, risk-taker. The research was limited because it was based on one academic centre (Poznań University of Economics and Business). Extending the research to other areas of higher education (e.g. law, medicine, psychology, computer science, mechanics) would allow the conclusion to be drawn on a wider scale and provide more insight into the nature of the phenomenon. The value of this study lies in the fact that it presents a coherent framework to explain the diverse characteristics of entrepreneurial attitudes in the business school environment.