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The entrepreneurial behavior of individuals is a result of a complex assembly of factors, and education is one of them. The article is aiming to address the scientific gap in the relation between education and the intention and attitudes in entrepreneurship by focusing on the analysis of the economic and entrepreneurial background as a determinant factor. Besides that, the study looked for the factors that influence entrepreneurial intention and intended to find out if there are significant differences between economic and non-economic backgrounds and entrepreneurial intentions of individuals. A survey with 582 validated respondents was employed in the north-west and the west part of Romania to determine the entrepreneurial intention of the residents. For investigating the results, descriptive statistics were used to analyze the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents, and principal component analysis with varimax rotation was conducted to reduce the number of items used to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of the respondents. The study demonstrated the significance of entrepreneurial education for entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process: the higher variance is given by entrepreneurial intention (58.75%) for those with economic studies and by entrepreneurial capacity (58.39%) for those without economic studies. It concludes that entrepreneurial education policies should concentrate on the increase of opportunities for entrepreneurs and on creating a culture of entrepreneurship. Regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurial capacity, personal attraction, social valuation, and entrepreneurial education/economic background significantly predict entrepreneurial intention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the particularities of participants' profile to trainings. The research was conducted in April 2012 in four counties of Romania: Arges, Bistrita-Nasaud, Mures and Suceava. The research method was de survey based on questionnaire. The sample size was of 194 respondents. The study revealed that the participants in training are mainly female, with high education level and low income. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social and economic realities require effort and flexibility form entrepreneurs and managers. To deal with the new request of the labor and the challenges for starting up a business more and more are those that participate to professional training programs. This paper presents the results of a research that was done in 4 counties of Romania. The objective of the research was to determine the effects of trainings regarding entrepreneurship. The research method was the survey based on questionnaire. The results revealed the fact that the participants appreciated positively the benefits of trainings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By analyzing the studied socio-economic, it was observed that the recession and the economic crisis had negative effects, since the investments, both in public and in private sectors were not sufficient to cover all the needs. Also, it can be seen that local authorities had not enough resources and/or they were unable to create a coherent strategy for effectively combating the negative consequences of the economic depreciation over communities. So, the need for entrepreneurship skills of people, both through the need to develop the current business environment and the availability of people to attend and take advantage of later knowledge gained is more stringent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]