Moving Forward – Entrepreneurship Education for Sustainable Economy

In this paper we discuss entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intentions of HEIs’ students in Slovenia. The exploratory factor analysis shows that entrepreneurial competencies can be divided into three sub-constructs – behavioural competencies, meta-competencies and achievement commitment. Slovenian students seem to be more inward than outward oriented since the perception of the meta-competencies’ level is higher than the perception of behavioural competencies and achievement commitment levels. The level of achievement commitment among the students seems to be the weakest among the three entrepreneurial competencies studied in the paper. Nevertheless, on average the perceptions of the entrepreneurial competencies among Slovenian students are quite high, one might think even too high. On the other hand, the results show that students’ entrepreneurial intentions are relatively low. Male students have significantly higher entrepreneurial intention than female students; they also evaluate their competencies higher than female students. Students with self-employed parents have significantly higher entrepreneurial intention, and also evaluate their competencies higher than students whose parents are not self-employed. When considering the ways of promoting entrepreneurship in HEIs it seems that, the focus of the effort should be directed mainly on the male students, and students with self-employed parents. They already have higher entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial intention as well. With the use of appropriate teaching/learning methods we should focus especially on developing and promoting of achievement commitment competencies.