The Place of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education - Present State and Perspectives

• Author: Iga Kott, Wioletta Skibinska, Katarzyna Szymczyk, Izabella Turek
• Pages: 76-84

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives. Proceedings 2015

76

Entrepreneurial Higher Education and Economic Progress

The Place of Entrepreneurship in Higher Education – Present State and

Perspectives

Iga Kott1, Wioletta Skibińska2, Katarzyna Szymczyk3, Izabella Turek4

Abstract: Entrepreneurship is one of the main driving forces of the national economies. In Poland, more and

more jobs are created in private enterprises, set up and running by entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are

characterized as people, which seize the opportunity to act, have higher self-esteem and a greater sense of

control over their lives, and they, usually become successful people. This causes a widespread conviction,

that the promotion of entrepreneurship, may result in maximizing the success of both, individual and in the

scale of the national economy as well. Therefore, it becomes important to develop standards in the field of

entrepreneurship education, the greater numbers of people would have been able to achieve a professional

success. This article presents the essence of the entrepreneurship and the role of education, in

entrepreneurship’s excitation or strengthening. Also a practical example of the implementation of these

provisions by one of the Polish Universities - Czestochowa University of Technology, is presented.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; students; education; schools; company

1 Introduction

Entrepreneurship is rather a special feature assigned to the human species, this feature, in a market

economy, can be fully developed, enabling the achievement of professional success or achieve the

state of complete satisfaction with the work as a self-employed. As an individual characteristic,

entrepreneurship is the force uniting various resources, aiming to start running own business, and then,

are (resources) are multiplied, bringing significant profits.

As a concept, entrepreneurship is characterized by ambiguity, and the literature on this issue, there are

many definitions, that describe entrepreneurship in various ways (Duda & Kukla, 2011):

1 PhD., Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland, Address: Dabrowskiego 69,

42-201, Czestochowa, Poland, Tel.: +48 34 3250 388, E-mail: igakott@interia.pl.

2 PhD., Eng., Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland, Address:

Dabrowskiego 69, 42-201, Czestochowa, Poland, Tel.: +48 34 3250 388, E-mail: wskibinska@1co.pl.

3 M.A., Faculty o f Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, P oland, Corresponding author:

kasiaszpl@gmail.com

4 PhD., Eng., Faculty of Management, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland, Address:

Dabrowskiego 69, 42-201, Czestochowa, Poland, Tel.: +48 34 3250 388, E-mail: izaturek@o2.pl.