Entrepreneurial Intentions among Students: Differences in Business and Non-Business Studies

Abstract

Along with the changing nature of jobs the prevailing global value being placed on entrepreneurship. The development of an enterprise culture has become a primary objective for many countries. It has been argued that an enterprise culture depends upon a population of individuals who are ‘enterprising’, and who have the ability to take action, (as employees or employers), using creative and innovative approaches. Although some research evidence has been available on different scopes of entrepreneurship in FYROM, not much has been revealed about the entrepreneurial intentions of the senior university students within business and non-business studies and their interest in the field of entrepreneurship as a possible future career. Several hundred of business and non-business students were surveyed in order to reveal whether business education contribute to entrepreneurial intentions.Results show that business students are more likely to start their own company and have more knowledge for starting a new business rather than the students from technology schools which is due the fact that students from the business schools usually attend more business-oriented courses during their studies. It is very likely to be confirmed that the student entrepreneurial intentions are less the case of their personal characteristics but they lay in their knowledge and abilities acquired through their education and also working experience. Thus, greater interest for entrepreneurship career is more likely to be associated with higher level of knowledge on how to run a business rather than level of innovativeness and other entrepreneurial prerequisites.
Keywords: Business studies, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship education, Entrepreneurial intentions, Non-business studies.