Entrepreneurial Education in Romanian Universities

Leovaridis, Cristina; Frunzaru, Valeriu; Cismaru, Diana-Maria

doi:10.21125/inted.2016.1014

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“…A European Commission report shows that European education and training systems are still failing to provide adequate skills for employability and do not work properly with business or employers to bring the learning process closer to the reality of the working environment [102]. Another study of 31 European states conducted in almost 2900 higher education institutions shows more than half of European students do not have access to entrepreneurial education, nor have the opportunity to participate in an extracurricular activity related to it [103]. In other words, one important barrier in opening a business and become an entrepreneur is a lack of entrepreneurial competences.…”

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Impact of Personality Traits and Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business and Engineering Students

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Entrepreneurs bring an enormous contribution to a country’s economic growth. Developing individual’s interest into new venture creation represents an important asset, especially for less developed countries where entrepreneurial activities are fundamental in enhancing economic growth. The recent economic crisis turned the attention of European policymakers towards entrepreneurship as a driving force for the creation of new job opportunities, regional/national competitiveness and growth. The aim of this article is to verify what relations are between locus of control, need for achievement and entrepreneurial intention of youth, following a cognitive approach and how much entrepreneurial education consolidates entrepreneurial skills and informs the young that entrepreneurship is a career option. To analyse entrepreneurial intentions, locus of control, need for achievement and entrepreneurial education in the context of Romania, this research used a quantitative design based on the answers to the questionnaire conducted during March 2017 to October 2017 on a sample of 270 students from two important Romanian universities. From the methodological point of view, several hypotheses have been developed and tested using multivariate logistic regression estimates, frequency analysis, internal consistency reliability of the constructs and moderating effects. The results illustrate that locus of control, need for achievement and entrepreneurial education proved to be important determinants for venture creation among young students, both independently and under the action of control variables. Also, respondents’ gender had a significant influence on one’s intention of opening a business in the future, with males being more inclined to become entrepreneurs than females.

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“…According to Sharma [10], the lack of formal education programs specialized in entrepreneurship and the inclination of universities to prepare students for jobs, inadequate content of the subject and ineffective teaching methodology are the major barriers identified for case of Uttarakhand state, India. In case of Romanian universities, as show Szabo and Marian [11], Ceptureanu and Ceptureanu [12], Vilcov and Dimitrescu [13], Leovaridis, Frunzaru and Cismaru [14], Frunzaru and Leovaridis [15], the emphasis must be on practical aspects of entrepreneurship education in order to put students in the position to conceive and implement a business plan, the preponderantly theoretical nature of formal Romanian education being most often blamed [11], [12], [13], [14], [15].…”

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A Local Perspective About Students’ Entrepreneurship. Evidence From Romania

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The paper is part of a larger research into inclusive entrepreneurship in Romania as a driver of local development. In this context, this paper focuses on youth entrepreneurship issues, specifically students' entrepreneurship and examines the push and pull factors of entrepreneurial intention of students in Romania. Starting from the analysis of the literature on the formal and entrepreneurship education as determinants of youth entrepreneurship, the paper presents the Bihor County of Romania context regarding employment, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education and the results of a quantitative research based on a questionnaire applied to a group of 136 students from the University of Oradea, Romania. The research findings outline a local perspective about the motivations and obstacles that influence the entrepreneurial intentions of students and students' perception regarding university courses and services able to stimulate their entrepreneurial potential. The paper ends with recommendations for improving the formal and informal entrepreneurial education opportunities, services and facilities offered by the University of Oradea according with local needs in order to encourage students' entrepreneurship and to increase the number of graduates who consider starting a business and self-employment in the field of graduate studies as a viable option for insertion into the labour market.

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“…The degree program is the most investigated factor in the students' entrepreneurship literature, in relation or not with career anchors, the profession of parents, proactive personality etc. [28,39] and it is widely recognized that business orientation is significant determinant of students' attitude toward entrepreneurship [26] and entrepreneurial education should be extended outside the business school [43], especially at engineering programs [3,5]. Other investigated factors are gender and residential area, the findings show, as expected, that male and urban students are more inclined to affairs than women [6] or those in rural areas [25].…”

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“…Despite studies that demonstrated the impact of higher education on entrepreneurial decision [11,41], empirical analysis that suggests that the start-up decision is "significantly positively related to the entrepreneurial orientation of the university" [25] a n d numerous case studies that explore the efficiency of entrepreneurial university supply worldwide, including Romania [3,26,42] the mechanism of triggering the students' entrepreneurial intentions has not been fully understood.…”

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Antecedents, Experiences and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Economics Students

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The paper is part of a larger research aims to increase the impact of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become an entrepreneur. Based on the literature in the field of youth entrepreneurship and the theory of planned behaviour, the research considers attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control towards entrepreneurship as students' antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions and exposure to entrepreneurial models, work experience and intuition of trigger events as entrepreneurial experiences. In this context, the paper findings about entrepreneurial intentions of a group of 200 undergraduate students in the first year of study from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Romania, before access to formal entrepreneurship education or/and other entrepreneurial education opportunities. The research tests according with theory of planned behavior if there is a positive correlation between students' antecedents, respectivelly experiences and entrepreneurial intentions. Additionally, the research tests whether there is any link between gender, the residential environment (urban, rural), the family origin and the entrepreneurial intentions of the students. The research results allow university to design entrepreneurial educational offer (curricula, programs, extra-curricular activities, practicebased learning etc.) in order to compensate initially perceived lack of support and expose students to experiences that stimulate their entrepreneurial intentions. Also, the research findings provide managerial implications and policy recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and programs. Future research steps seek hypothesis retesting for Economics students after access to entrepreneurship education and address other groups of students from non-economic fields of study where, traditionally, the offer of entrepreneurial education is poor or non-existent.

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Entrepreneurial Education in Romanian Universities

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Impact of Personality Traits and Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business and Engineering Students

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