Promoting Entrepreneurship in Romania: An Impact Study Within Recent Graduates of Economic Sciences

Abstract

There are plenty of reasons into choosing entrepreneurship as opposed to employee`s status: the most frequent being the independence and the financial gain of the entrepreneur. Furthermore, it could even be assimilated as an alternative livelihood to lack of employment or risk of becoming unemployed. Promoting entrepreneurship through an entrepreneurial curricular plays a major role in acquiring the key individual skillset needed. The enterprising spirit of the new generation is impacted by entrepreneurial education, developing the can do attitude and enforces it`s role within economy and the society. The required skillset that allows entrepreneurs to transform ideas into action are: creativity, innovation and risk appetite as well as goal and project management. The hereby paper is a quantitative research of entrepreneurial intent within economic studies graduates and the impact of the Romanian entrepreneurial promotion initiatives on the aforementioned.