ANALYZING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALIFICATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDENTS: A STUDY ON THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP LECTURE PARTICIPANTS OF A BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

Abstract

Over the last sixty years there has been increasing recognition on the importance of entrepreneurship education. Nowadays entrepreneurship candidates prefer to have formal educational experience about the details of setting up and operating a business. However, there are still unknown aspects of the outcomes of entrepreneurship education. Entrepreneurship is the ability to seek out opportunities and turn them into profitable businesses. There are now more than sixty thousand entrepreneurs in Turkey. Although according to the statistics, 80 percent of new businesses close in their first five years. From this point, it can be said that it is important to have not only entrepreneurship intentions but to also possess some entrepreneurship skills and qualifications. With the help of research questions, the scope of the study encompasses the basic qualifications of an entrepreneur. An empirical study is used with qualitative research methods. This study is a kind of applied research which uses a descriptive survey method, and a validity and reliability proven questionnaire, in order to analyze the mentioned qualifications. The results show that entrepreneurship students studying a graduate degree have both entrepreneurial skills and try to improve themselves towards entrepreneurship.

Keywords

• Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial qualifications, entrepreneurship education

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