Acta academica karviniensia 2024, 24(2):42-53 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2024.010

Does Enterpreneurial Education Support Start-up Spirit of Students? Case of the School of Business Administration in Karviná

Dominik Salat
Silesian University, School of Business Administration in Karvina, Univerzitní nám. 1934/3, 733 40 Karviná

Entrepreneurship has a very complex culture content where people are given demanding tasks and responsibilities. For many individuals, this culture is not easy to adopt. There are various forms of support has been created for those interested. One of them is the entrepreneurship education offered to students at the School of Business Administration in Karviná. Within the process of the entrepreneurship course, students gaining professional knowledge followed by personality type through a standardized psychological test. This innovative step would help them how to use this knowledge. The aim of this paper is to introduce the typology of students in the entrepreneurship course within the comparison of the personality typology from a population of real entrepreneurs. In fact, the results show that the students' typology is very different from that of real entrepreneurs. Those results can have an impact on the decision to enter the business and subsequently on the business performance as well or to innovate business courses.

Keywords: education, entrepreneurship, personality, psychological test.
JEL classification: I20, L26, M21

Received: October 21, 2024; Revised: January 15, 2025; Accepted: February 5, 2025; Published: February 13, 2025  Show citation

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