Making students sensitive to entrepreneurship

Jean Bonnet, Thomas Brau, Bernard Cadet and Antonia Guijarro Madrid
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Thomas Brau: University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France - CREM-CNRS
Bernard Cadet: University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France - CREM-CNRS
Antonia Guijarro Madrid: Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT), Spain

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a {proposal to make students sensitive to entrepreneurship} aiming at familiarizing students to the setting up of new firms and stimulating such a course of action. This {{awareness campaign}} would take place during the student's curriculum and rest on a simulation exercise. This campaign is based on the results of a survey conducted at the Technical University of Cartagena (Spain). This study has identified some students’ aspirations to salaried employment and entrepreneurship. This survey also recognized some specific features that the campaign must integrate, in particular the need to make entrepreneurship compatible with the preparation for salaried employment. The results of this study are completed comparing them with the opinion from entrepreneurs of the same region. This comparison highlights some barriers to entrepreneurship among the students population, making it possible to complete the content of the proposed simulation exercise. This paper also highlights the absence of barriers of a psychological nature usually put forward by the literature, such as a low level of the {need for achievement or the propensity for risk-taking}.

Keywords: career; company; entrepreneurship; making sensitive; student (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-05
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