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Students' Perceptions and Intentions towards Entrepreneurship: The Empirical Findings from Croatia,

Entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as an important generator of growth, innovation and especially new job creation. As a result of that, there is progressively academic, political and corporate interest in entrepreneurship enhancing. In this context the formal education represents one of the possible ways of entrepreneurship endorsement. Many researches show that the entrepreneurship education has substantial effect on entrepreneurial success and they also illustrate the positive relationship between entrepreneurship education and economic development. Since today’s students are generators of future development their insights and attitudes on entrepreneurship could considerably determinate the future business activities. This paper deals with entrepreneurial intentions of students because of their potential effect on future context of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the entrepreneurship perception and entrepreneurship intention of Croatian university students and to find out whether they are ready for the market game and risk taking which arises from entrepreneurship activities. The empirical research is conducted on 176 graduate students of businesses who attended the course Entrepreneurship, and who are expected to enter in the process of the entrepreneurship. In order to investigate the perceptions of youth and their entrepreneurship intention, the research instrument which was used is the questionnaire with 16 questions which covered four dominant areas. The first group of questions is related to the type of potential business, the second group is about financial aspect of business, then follow the questions which deal with the ways of implementing a business idea, and the final set of questions considers the source of information needed to generate business idea and its successful implementation on the market. Based on the adequate descriptive statistical analysis we discovered the satisfying level of students’ intentions on entrepreneurship and their willingness to put their effort in entrepreneurship activities.

students; entrepreneurship; perceptions; intentions; business

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