On the Specifics of Entrepreneurship Perception by University Students-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

On the Specifics of Entrepreneurship Perception by University Students

Published:2020-04-06 Issue:1 Volume: Page:127-142
ISSN:2618-8996
Container-title:Economics of Contemporary Russia
language:
Short-container-title:Ekonomicheskaya nauka sovremennoy Rossii

Author:

Vinokurova Natalia A.¹,Svetlov Nikolai M.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Central Economics and Mathematics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract

On the base of the survey in two universities in Voronezh (680 students) the hypothesis is rejected that students, in accordance with J. Schumpeter's interpretation of entrepreneurial activity, associate entrepreneurship with innovations. It is found that the student's perception of entrepreneurship in the Russian cultural and linguistic environment differs from the Schumpeterian one. Although the inclination to joining entrepreneurship in the future is widespread among the students, they are not ready to innovate. Students perceive entrepreneurship primarily as a pathway to financial security and personal well-being. Respondents tend to neglect socially significant aspects of entrepreneurship.It is revealed that the students miss a holistic system of views and priorities regarding to their careers. Personal interests and motivations prevail over business inclinations. This is expressed in the students' career preferences, which incline to the ability to combine business and personal life, to the pursuit of financial security, material well-being, avoiding difficulties. As a rule, students prefer interesting and creative work. Hard work and education as factors of success in their future professional careers are valued low.At the same time, weak social inclinations are manifested. Mutual assistance and cooperation as factors of professional progress are rated low. Also, the students are not inclined to work much and hard for the sake of public benefits. Prevailing not only personal interests as compared to the social, but even personal as compared to professional is an obstacle to the students joining the innovative entrepreneurship, requiring the priority of business and professional interests. The low interest to continuing family business reflects the young people's desire to independence, to free choice of path. This indirectly indicates their deviation from traditional values (which are considered to be characteristic of the Russian culture in the past) and about the growth of their individualism.

Publisher

RPO for the Promotion of Institutes DE RAS

Reference33 articles.

1. Schumpeter J. (1982). Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Moscow, Progress. 401 p. (in Russian; translated from German).

2. Avrorin V. A. (1975). Problems of studying the functional side of language (On the question of the subject of sociolinguistics). Leningrad: Nauka, 276 p. (in Russian).

3. Acs Z.J., Desai S., Hessels J. (2008). Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions. Small Business Economics, no. 3, pp. 219–234.

4. Ashmarin I., Stepanova G. (2009). The student youth at the threshold of innovation activtiy. Chelovek vchera i segodnya: mezhdistsiplinarnye issledovaniya [A human yesterday and today: cross-disciplinary studies]. M. S. Kiseleva, ed. Moscow, Institut filosofii RAN [Institute of Philosophy RAS], pp. 89–109 (in Russian).

5. Beugelsdijk S., Noorderhaven N. (2004). Entrepreneurial attitude and economic growth: A cross-section of 54 regions. The Annals of Regional Science, no. 38 (2), pp. 199–218.