Becoming Entrepreneur in Romania: the Role of Entrepreneurship Education

Ioana Gabriela Domilescu 1, Andrei Alexandru Tărăbîc 2*

 1 West University of Timisoara, Teacher Training Department
2 West University of Timisoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Pârvan, No. 4, Timișoara, Romania
* Corresponding author. E-mail: andrei.tarabic@e-uvt.ro

Robotica & Management, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 22-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/rm.2021.1.5

Abstract: The present study (based on the analysis of 26 interviews) aims to identify the impact of formal entrepreneurship education on the professional life of entrepreneurs and ways of improving entrepreneurship education in secondary, high school and higher education, the findings showing that formal entrepreneurship education has little influence on becoming an entrepreneur.

Keywords: entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial competence, formal education, EntreComp model.

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