Exploring Entrepreneurial Potential Among Students

According to last research in domain, youth unemployment rate has considerably increased interest in promoting entrepreneurship. Romania occupy a better position to the unemployment chapter (6.8%) than other states like France (with an unemployment rate of 10.3%), Poland (9%) or the Netherlands (7.4%), when it comes to youth situation becomes critical, one in four young people under 25 are unemployed. In 2015, youth unemployment rate in Romania was 24%, above the average of European Union countries, which was 22.2% (Eurostat, INS, 2015).In this context, students should be prepared to rediscover their potential to create their own job and to accept self-employment as a viable life program (Gibb, 1987, 1993, 2002; Hitty & O`Gorman, 2004). As studies shows, they tend to choose activities they enjoy and leave in the background, or the last moment those activities they are required to do.The study aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial potential of students with various majors and entrepreneurial personality. A paper-pencil survey was carried out for 3 different facilities. Faculty of Economics student’s (N=81 students on 2nd and 3 year of study), technical sciences student’s and human science student’s received a paper-pencil questionnaire which they had to fill-out immediately after they were involved in a workshop in which they had to use their entrepreneurial creativity potential. It aimed equally by the impact of training on subjects which were put in a position to assess patterns of entrepreneurial action. To develop different aspects of entrepreneurial self-efficacy among students is important their exposure to various learning situations. In the current stage of research, it confirms that there are significant differences in terms of motivation, risk propensity or entrepreneurial skills to students following technical and economic studies. The research is in its first phase and the conclusions to be developed on the basis of the process of specialized training in the next stage.