DOES THE HIGHER EDUCATION PROMOTE STUDENTS’ENTREPRENEURIAL POTENTIAL IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES?

Dimitar Nikolosk, Marjan Angeleski, Slavica Rocheska and Gjorgji Mancheski
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Dimitar Nikolosk: FACULTY OF ECONOMICS-PRILEP, UNIVERSITY “ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI”- BITOLA, MACEDONIA
Marjan Angeleski: FACULTY OF ECONOMICS-PRILEP, UNIVERSITY “ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI”- BITOLA, MACEDONIA
Slavica Rocheska: FACULTY OF ECONOMICS-PRILEP, UNIVERSITY “ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI”- BITOLA, MACEDONIA
Gjorgji Mancheski: FACULTY OF ECONOMICS-PRILEP, UNIVERSITY “ST. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI”- BITOLA, MACEDONIA

Annals - Economy Series, 2014, vol. 2, 6-12

Abstract: Nowadays, there is a widespread recognition that business start-ups are a driving force of economic growth and significant job creation. Given the segmented characteristics of the labour markets, youth population is among those segments that are disproportionally affected by high and sustained unemployment. The situation with youth unemployment is particularly unfavourable in developing countries such as South-Eastern European countries where almost half of the active young population is jobless. Even though the governments in these countries have repeatedly undertaken measures for improving the position of youth on the labour markets, it seems that these endeavours have not reached the planned goals. From this perspective, it is important to analyse the potential contribution of education, and particularly the higher education to the development of entrepreneurship. The aim of this paper is to assess the role of the higher education in South-Eastern European countries in fostering the students’ entrepreneurial potential. For this purpose we have carried out a survey on representative samples of students in two universities: “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Macedonia) and “Aleksander Xhuvani” (Albania). We found that considerable number of surveyed students have ideas for starting own businesses, but only a small portion of them attempted to develop their business ideas in practice. As a consequence, we can conclude that there exists a wide room for further policy recommendations that will shape directions for future reforms in the SEECs higher education systems and will improve the students’ entrepreneurial potential.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; higher education; unemployment; youth. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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