The chapter discusses entrepreneurship development in Slovenia since 1990 and provides detailed insight into the development of entrepreneurship policy and how it was institutionalised. According to the main tasks policymakers followed, this discussion considers three characteristic periods. The first, between 1991 and 1996, was a period of establishing all the necessary institutions and subsequently introducing the legislation forming the national state and a fully-fledged market economy. The second period, between 1997 and 2003, was heavily characterised by the EU accession process and harmonising Slovenian legislation with Aquis communitaire. The third period, after 2004, saw the establishment of a more coherent SME and entrepreneurship policy. For each of these periods shown are the main tasks, policies, and institutions whose aim was to support SMEs and entrepreneurship. In evaluating the development of entrepreneurship policy in Slovenia and the country’s relevant entrepreneurial institutions, it is clear that significant progress has been made. The overview of policies has shown that, from the early days characterised by the formation of organisations and institutions, passing of different laws, and formulation of general conditions and a framework for SMEs’ environment, Slovenia has developed to a stage where partial policies, programmes, and measures have started to converge into more coherent entrepreneurship policy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10767388
The book presents the results of entrepreneurship research based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data. It focuses on the development of entrepreneurship in Slovenia compared to entrepreneurship in other countries. It employs longitudinal GEM data which has been collecting in Slovenia since 2002. Main attention is paid to entrepreneurial activities, aspirations and attitudes towards entrepreneurship in the adult population of Slovenia. We find that early entrepreneurial activity in Slovenia declined, and that there are very few entrepreneurs with high aspirations, which would be motivated to grow their businesses. Business environment in Slovenia is not supportive enough so that more individuals would be encouraged to choose entrepreneurship career. Basic conditions, such as basic education, infrastructure, basic legal order, and the like may be sufficient to promote necessity entrepreneurship, but for growth oriented opportunity entrepreneurship other entrepreneurial frameworks such as entrepreneurship education, knowledge and technology transfer, venture capital, development policy, etc. must be developed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 67082753
Modern society and its transition into a knowledge society are claiming more and more creative and entrepreneurial individuals who are capable of autonomous action, either in the realm of an organization, either as entrepreneurs with their own businesses. The paper reminds of the importance of entrepreneurship in a modern society and its attachment to the economic and social development. We are suggesting that education can influence individual preferences and values, in order to opt for an independent business career. Based on a research conducted among students of business schools at universities from 11 countries, we are comparing entrepreneurial characteristics of Slovenian and foreign students. The survey results show that entrepreneurial education needs a different approach than is appropriate for the education of future managers of large enterprises. On the basis of the entrepreneurial program at the University of Maribor, which we are running from the mid-nineties we know, that the experience gained in the class itself is not sufficient for students' developing understanding of the value of innovation and creativity, but it needs to be upgraded with direct experience, which can be obtained in real life - in the case described, these are mentoring businesses, where students are engaged in an experiential part of the educational process. The discussion introduces the term quadruple helixof entrepreneurship education in order to underline the importance of the four main actors involved in the educational process described: students, professors, entrepreneurs and supportive infrastructure of entre- preneurial ecosystem.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10724124