Gender dependencies and differences in beliefs between science and economics graduates are also presented in order to discuss implications of the results on entrepreneurship education and counselling.Ĭhapter 1 gives a short introduction to the historical roots of the recent discourse on social enterprises. The results are contrasted to the latest GEM report for entrepreneurial activity in Greece. Descriptive statistics, correlations and factor analysis are used to discuss the results for the distinct subgroups of latent or nascent entrepreneurs compared to the normal population. The items concern five major subjects of entrepreneurial thinking: conceptualizing entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial factors, motivation, risk management and business financing. A survey of consisting of a 34- item questionnaire was conducted amongst both science and economics graduates The research methodology falls into the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the questionnaire includes affirmatively stated opinion items where individuals agree or disagree following a 5-item Likert scale. The present study seeks to reveal certain beliefs of Greek graduates on business venturing. next generation entrepreneurs, is crucial since it is expected to depend on the local culture and economic conditions. An exploration of the entrepreneurial beliefs of graduates, i.e. Such an obscure set of beliefs, or assumptions, underlies the frames of reference of latent or nascent entrepreneurs, being an influential factor of their cognition during entrepreneurial education, counselling or lifelong informal learning.

The socio- economic environment also shapes certain beliefs of individuals about the holistic process of business venturing. The former concerns the existing market structure which incubates entrepreneurial opportunities while the latter concerns the human potential that habitually acts entrepreneurially. The complex phenomenon of entrepreneurship is thought as generally divided to its exogenous and endogenous parts.

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