Student readiness to start their own business

Micro firms are more important in Poland than in other European Union (EU) member states because Polish micro firms represent a larger share of the total number of Polish firms and contribute more to total turnover and gross value added than EU micro firms. Polish students exhibit substantial intere...

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Published in:Economic research - Ekonomska istraživanja 2015-01, Vol.28 (1), p.608-619
Main Authors: Staniewski, Marcin Waldemar, Szopiński, Tomasz
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business students
Careers
Companies
Creativity
Economic growth
Economic theory
Education
Employment
Entrepreneurial finance
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship education
Gender differences
Innovations
Learning
Member states
Poland
Readiness
readiness to start own business
readiness to start own business
gender differences
Self employment
Skills
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Students
Turnover
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Summary:Micro firms are more important in Poland than in other European Union (EU) member states because Polish micro firms represent a larger share of the total number of Polish firms and contribute more to total turnover and gross value added than EU micro firms. Polish students exhibit substantial interest in starting their own businesses. This paper presents the results of a study examining the entrepreneurial attitudes of 458 students. The goal of the study was to identify relationships between academic majors and academic programme and the extent to which students were ready to start their own business. The analysis revealed that although the choice of academic major did not influence student readiness to start a business, there was an association between academic programme and student readiness to start their own business. Respondent gender influenced the extent to which students were prepared to start their own business due to gender differences in access to business start-up financing.
ISSN:1331-677X
1848-9664
DOI:10.1080/1331677X.2015.1085809