University Students’ Attitudes and Intentions Towards Entrepreneurial Education

Abstract

The impact of entrepreneurship education has been recognized as one of the crucial factors that help students develop an entrepreneurial attitude. Various international researches on the matter show significant differences at the retrieval of data, analysis and evaluation of the results. At the same time there are few official studies on the students’ attitude towards entrepreneurial education and practice which leads to a greater ambiguity on the matter. It appears that factors influencing entrepreneurship education image are to a large extent complex and subjective.

The aim of this paper is to analyze IUC students’ attitudes and intentions in the light of constantly increasing importance of entrepreneurial culture on a global scale. The authors believe the empirical research conducted among 103 first to third year students at Dobrich campus for the period of 1 month will help to further advancing the rapidly developing scientific and business realm of entrepreneurship.

Keywords: entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, intentions and perceptions towards entrepreneurial education

JEL Classification: I20