STAVOVI MLADIH O PODUZETNIŠTVU I ULOZI OBRAZOVANJA U RAZVOJU KULTURE PODUZETNOSTI
YOUNG PEOPLE’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN ENTERPRISE CULTURE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: The entrepreneurship as a generator of employment and economic growth is becoming more important in modern transitional conditions. Dynamizing of human and material resources through entrepreneurship, in the conditions of increasing unemployment rate, particularly of young population, requires devoting attention to young people, especially to high school and university students as potential future entrepreneurs. Educational system has the key role in the enterprise culture development, while the insufficient level of economic-innovative component of education, and consequently, lack of entrepreneurial skills, decrease the possibility for successful integration of young people in the labour market through self-employment. We will present the results of empirical research about entrepreneurial ambitions of high school/university students and the role of education in entrepreneurial awareness development among this population with the focus on: ▪ determining the young people’s attitudes towards the importance of formal education in entrepreneurship affirmation and determining the level of their intentions for starting own business. ▪ identifying the key levels of entrepreneurial skills among young people and the level of support towards improvement programmes of education in the field of entrepreneurship. The basic instrument of this research was questionnaire while units of research were young people with different level of education: seniors from high schools in Zenica and students from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zenica. The sample encompassed 80 high school students and 160 university students.

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