How Educational Platforms Support Students' Entrepreneurial Preoccupation
How Educational Platforms Support Students' Entrepreneurial Preoccupation

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important factors that increase student's preoccupation towards entrepreneurship is the way they are inspired by university studies to take action in this direction. This exploratory research aims at determining how student's previous experience in using educational platforms helps them when deciding to become an entrepreneur. The authors analyze how able are students and graduates of University Politehnica of Bucharest to recognize business opportunities, what their motivations would be in starting their own company and also if they feel the university environment and educational program supports them. Based on students' perception of how the university environment with the curriculum design, teaching methods, and other facilities the authors want to find ways in order to improve the entrepreneurial preoccupation towards students. For this exploratory study, the authors used mixed method research, and the data was collected through a structured questionnaire. The authors gathered data from students and graduates of three faculties in University Politehnica of Bucharest in order to see the differences that come from the curricula, with majors in Computer Science, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship. Data were interpreted using SPSS Modeller and the results validated. The recommendations the authors make are useful both for the academia but also for the business development in Romania because of the investigation of what students need in order to start their own business in terms of education and support within the universities. One major result was that even if students from faculties where innovation is highly supported like Information Technology/ Computer Science have many ideas and would like to start a business, they are not doing so because they lack entrepreneurial education. On the other hand, students from faculties with several economic disciplines would like to start a business but are not supported and educated enough to come up with innovative products. In conclusion, the paper presents solutions for both situations in order to increase students’ entrepreneurial preoccupation.

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