To be or not to be an entrepreneur? Students' perceptions of barriers to entrepreneurship

Jana Hojnik, Doris Gomezelj Omerzel and Tina Bratkovič Kregar

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2019, vol. 25, issue 4, 430-450

Abstract: The aim of this study is to explore how students who are attending or have completed at least one course in entrepreneurship perceive barriers to entrepreneurship. Based on a sample of 193 students from University of Primorska (Slovenia), we first conducted exploratory factor analysis and found five factors related to barriers to entrepreneurship. We then employed cluster analysis and identified barriers to entrepreneurship for four groups of students. The findings of the conducted study enable us to advise and help students who seem to be prospective entrepreneurs to develop the lacking competencies and start their own ventures in the future.

Keywords: barriers to entrepreneurship; clusters; entrepreneurship; higher education/university; Slovenia; students. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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