Entrepreneurship, young entrepreneurship, skills, unemployment, job market, professional integration, university program, business school, e-learning, social media, career orientation, YouTube, financial support
Many young people, especially in developing countries, tend to view entrepreneurship as a viable and attractive path. Many young people, especially in developing economies, turn to entrepreneurship because of a lack of employment opportunities.
The role of this thesis is to understand the different factors pushing or, on the contrary, discouraging young people to entrepreneurship. We will try to understand who are these young entrepreneurs, what are the key skills that young entrepreneurs need to develop in order to run successful businesses and how we explain that they have decided to undertake while others do not have this idea in mind.
[...] Indeed of them see entrepreneurship as an opportunity to turn their passion into a professional activity. A wish that reveals an important evolution of the vision of work in our society. A study conducted in 2016 by Inès Gabarret [HYPERLINK: publications-de-Inès-Gabarret--92475.htm], Benjamin Vedel [HYPERLINK: https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-Benjamin-Vedel--77084.htm], Pascal Etzol [HYPERLINK: https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-Pascal-Etzol--664137.htm] as also allowed to understand the motivating factors for entrepreneurship among the younger generations. Among the main results, the student-entrepreneurs express dissatisfaction with salaried work and a search for satisfaction in following their passion. [...]
[...] France encourages entrepreneurship in metropolitan France and in the French overseas departments and territories. Moreover, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2021/2022 Global Report, highlights the fact that India, Arabie Saudia, Netherland and Sweden are the countries where it is easier to start a business. Figure 8 : In my country, it is easy to start a business adults agree or strongly agree) Actors fostering young graduate to entrepreneurship The social influence A study conducted by Nyock Ilouga and al in 2000, showed the positive infuence of social support on the intention of occupational choice in favor of entrepreneurial occupations, especially when it comes from family members. [...]
[...] The difficulties mentioned in creating a business can be partly explained by the fact that 75% of high school and university students believe that they have never been informed about the mechanisms to help them create a business. Bénédicte Sanson, co-founder of Moovjee, an organization that supports young people aged 18 to 30 in their entrepreneurial adventure, explains that the main obstacle is economic. Not the money to finance your start-up but the money to live. Two years ago, the young people of Moovjee were questioned. The first thing they said was that it takes them two years to earn their first salary, usually around 500 euros. [...]
[...] Motivations for entrepreneurship among youth Whether it's Generation Z or millenials, new entrants to the workforce are increasingly attracted to entrepreneurship. For example, in the U.S., a Gallup Student survey found that 40% of students surveyed from middle school through high school say they want to start their own business - 24% of them have already started. This trend has been growing for several years. The EDHEC NewGen Talent Center has recorded a 38% increase in the number of young graduates who plan to start their own business or freelance in the next five years. [...]
[...] It concerns young people under the age of 30, who are going to create a business and register within the next 12 months, or who have already created a business within the last 3 months, and who meet at least one of the following conditions: reside in a Priority Neighborhood of the City policy or Rural Revitalization Zone or be registered with a Mission Locale, or have a level of study of CAP-BEP or lower, or be a beneficiary of the Revenu de Solidarité Active the Allocation Spécifique de Solidarité (ASS) or the Allocation Adulte Handicapé or have been a job seeker for more than 12 months, or be a single parent, or have a Republican Integration Contract that is less than 24 months old. The student-entrepreneur status The National Student-Entrepreneur Status allows students and young graduates to develop an entrepreneurial project in a Pépite. Initiated by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in 2014, Pépite France federates the 33 Pépite (Student Clusters for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship) spread throughout France. Pépite's mission is to strengthen the entrepreneurial culture and innovation in higher education by implementing awareness-raising, training and support actions. [...]
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