Making students sensitive to entrepreneurship

Jean Bonnet, Thomas Brau, Bernard Cadet and Antonia Guijarro Madrid
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Thomas Brau: CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Bernard Cadet: CERREV - Centre d'étude et de recherche sur les risques et les vulnérabilités - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université
Antonia Guijarro Madrid: UPCT - Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena / Technical University of Cartagena

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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: Students; Entrepreneurship; Making sensitive; Career; Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Published in Journal of Social Management, 2011, 1 (9), pp.55-80

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