Entrepreneurship has an important social and economic function, but the decision of individuals to become entrepreneurially active – by establishing own companies or within existing companies, where they are employed – is influenced by personal and social factors, institutional frameworks, the level of development of the economy, social and cultural norms and other factors. Within the GEM research (the research consortium grew to 69 participating countries in 2012), the main data basis for the research represent the adult population survey and questionnaires and interviews with national experts. Within the research results it is established, that the detection or perception of business opportunities is the important factor for individual's decision to start with entrepreneurship – but in Slovenia the perception of business opportunities is present in a very modest volume, similar situation being detected in all European countries of innovation type of economy, that have been affected with the economic crisis. The entrepreneurial activity in Slovenia in 2012 slightly rose in comparison to the year before – TEA index was 5.42%, but at the same time a very low level of female entrepreneurship is present – less than 25%. Besides motives for entrepreneurship, where Slovenia is a very typical country of innovative type of the economy with the majority of opportunity driven entrepreneurship, the monograph analyses also the business discontinuance and causes for exits that are in Slovenia mainly financial. Entrepreneurial employee activity in Slovenia in comparison to traditional entrepreneurial activity is relatively high, with the highest prevalence rate among highly educated individuals. The monograph includes also the analysis of international migrations and entrepreneurship and of entrepreneurial aspirations and competitiveness. Based on the analysis of socio-economic environment the research stresses that recommendations for economic policy are especially to stimulate entrepreneurial activity towards stimulation of innovativeness in entrepreneurial education, enabling tax reliefs and formation of a clearly defined and long-term government policy for promotion of entrepreneurship, as well as the need for public expenditure reduction, Slovenia should ease the access to favorable sources of finance, eliminate administrative barriers and strengthen the consulting network for entrepreneurs.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 73829121The main purpose of the research is to provide some new cognition toward more operational dynamic capability concept based on the enterpriseʼs life cycle concept and a dynamic enterprise construct. The logic of ten dynamic enterpriseʼs characteristics is followed and propositions are developed. These propositions are providing basis for development of empirical testing as well as indicating conditions for building and sustaining enterpriseʼs dynamics. An integral and holistic governance and management approach is of crucial importance for implementing enterpriseʼs major orientation toward "dynamics". This orientation should be incorporated in goals and objectives at all hierarchical levels of management process; that is in enterpriseʼs vision, mission, and strategies as well as in operative goals and objectives of an enterprise.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 11386652In this paper the impact of oneʼs entrepreneurial education and training on starting entrepreneurial activity is analyzed. The research is based on findings suggesting that those having confidence in own skills and ability for entrepreneurship are more likely to start entrepreneurial career, while entrepreneurial education and training is important for increasing this self-efficacy. Three, the most important sources of entrepreneurial education and training are formal education at primary and secondary level, informal training at universities and especially self-studies, through reading books, observing other people in business or by working in someone elseʼs business, which have also the strongest impact on entrepreneurial activity. The curricula especially at the tertiary level should concentrate on those specific knowledge and skills needed by most potential entrepreneurs - regarding our results, this should include especially direct experience in the real business environment.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 11451932The purpose of the paper is to explore the growth aspirations of south-easternEuropean (SEE) countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia) earlystage entrepreneurs, concentrating on the relationship between a firm's innovative and international orientation and its growth aspirations. Innovative orientation and international orientation are referred as the most important dimensions of the growth aspirations and can be used for strengthening of a firm from SEE countries. We used firm's aspirations about the future employment as the operational measure of entrepreneurial growth. The data for our analysis is obtained from the 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Adult Population Survey (APS) in which 1,106 early-stage entrepreneurs from eight countries were identified. The results of the binary logistic regression show that innovative orientation is negatively related to the firms' growth aspirations. This means that the adoption of new technology as well as offering new products/services weakens the growth aspirations of the early-stage entrepreneurial SEE countries firms. The predictor of international orientation, too, is negatively and significantly associated with the growth aspirations. This means that internalisation impedes SEE countries firmsʼ growth aspirations. The results also show that firms from innovation-driven countries have less negative growth aspirations compared to those from efficiency-driven countries.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 17247254Intense competition in past decades, stemming from the opening of national markets and global expansion of production, has forced companies to use all their best resources and core skills to exploit business opportunities. Companies compete in a fast-changing environment, where the key question is how to succeed in such an environment. The only viable answer is to act in such a way to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage through continuous innovation. Companiesʼ performance at different levels of innovation also reflects their innovation performance at the national level. This paperʼs driving research question examines the innovation performance of companies and, based on the results, defines the main challenges of selected countries to improve companiesʼ innovation abilities and performance. Several methodologies to measure innovation abilities and performance of companies exist; this paper is based on two of them. The first one is the European Innovation Scoreboard, which assesses the innovation performance of selected countries using the Community innovation Survey database. The second is based on SME Performance Review Indicators, which measure the performance of European SMEs in different areas, including innovativeness. These two sources represent the database for the empirical comparison of Slovenia and Croatia. The results indicate that several differences exist between the compared countries and that both face many challenges in developing innovation capabilities of companies and improve policies and mechanisms supporting innovativeness to improve companiesʼ innovation performance.
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