ICT-BASED STUDENT ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECTS ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMATIC SUPPORT AND EVALUATION OF STUDENT INTEREST
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7251/ACE2032107MKeywords:
student, ICT industry, university, system support analysis, entrepreneurshipAbstract
In today’s modern world, more than ever before, students are faced with entrepreneurship based on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) as a reasonable and justified career choice. Whether their career choice would be successful or not depends a lot on the level of system support through entrepreneurial ecosystem during their education.
The main objective of this paper is to present the current assessment, indicate the problems and possible solutions regarding the entrepreneurial infrastructure, culture and potential of higher education institutions in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. To achieve this, we have researched the level of the system support to students for development and launch of their ICT based start-ups during and after their university education respecting different educational profiles and demographic characteristics.
The research covers the sample of 436 students from seven higher education institutions in Banja Luka at their bachelor studies and includes focus groups, survey, descriptive and inferential statistical methods.
We have found significant discrepancy between university ICT programs and infrastructure and student needs. For instance, a quite large number of students interested in ICT industry attended some kind of informal education from this domain and at the same time they were unaware that those and similar programs were freely available at their universities. In this paper we have identified those and similar gaps and compared our research results with similar results in other countries.
References
Bing, L., & Qin, L. (2017). A Review of College Student Entrepreneurial Support System. 3rd Annual International Conference on Modern Education and Social Science (MESS 2017), (str. 13-18). https://doi.org/10.12783/dtssehs/mess2017/12076
Ghina, A., Simatupang, T. M., &Gustomo, A. (2017). The relevancy of graduates' competencies to the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education: A case study at SBM ITB-Indonesia. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education.
Likert, R. (1932). A technique for the measurement of attitudes. Archives of psychology.
Matt, M., & Schaeffer, V. (2018). Building entrepreneurial ecosystems conducive to student entrepreneurship: new challenges for universities. Journal of Innovation Economics Management, (1), 9-32. https://doi.org/10.3917/jie.025.0009
Piperopoulos, P. (2012). Could Higher Education Programs, Culture and Structure Stifle the Entrepreneurial Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, str. 461-483. https://doi.org/10.1108/14626001211250162
Stephan, P. (2009). Tracking the placement of students as a measure of technology transfer. Measuring the social value of innovation: A link in the university technology transfer and entrepreneurship equation, 113-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1048-4736(2009)0000019005
Wright, M., Siegel, D. S., & Mustar, P. (2017). An emerging ecosystem for student startups. The Journal of Technology Transfer, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-017-9558-z
Kozma, R. B. (2005). National policies that connect ICT-based education reform to economic and social development. Human Technology: An interdisciplinary journal on humans in ICT environments. https://doi.org/10.17011/ht/urn.2005355
Heeks, R. (2008). ICT4D 2.0: The next phase of applying ICT for international development. Computer, 41(6), 26-33. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2008.192
