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The article presents the abstract of the article "New Ventures and Entrepreneurship in an Eastern European Context: A Training and Development Programme for Managers in State-Owned Firms," by Edwin G. Nelson and John Taylor published in the September 1995 issue of "Journal of European Industrial Training." It highlights that as part of the Romanian Government's plan to create a market economy, state firms are required to restructure by disaggregating, commercializing and privatizing their operations. The Government is also encouraging the development of a small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector, and one of the best prospects for the creation of SMEs is for them to be spun off from state firms as they disaggregate and downsize.

The study investigates the Romanian entrepreneurial education training program emphasizing the secondary education student entrepreneurial intents included in technical and professional Vocational Education Training (VET) programs, in order to identify its role in increasing student intention in the process of choosing a career as an entrepreneur among graduates of the vocational and technical Romanian education system. The study research methodology was based on the interpretation of two questionnaires consisting of 23 questions, which were applied to a population of 253 and 159 respondents. The survey period was conducted between 2019 and 2020. The respondents were students from the vocational and technical education system in Romania, mostly from the Central Region of Romania, but the results of the study could be extended to the entire Romanian education system. The data were processed using SPSS software, and the results of the study revealed direct, positive, and significant links between psychological and behavioral traits and entrepreneurial intentions of the student surveyed, moderated by the entrepreneurial education acquired through the school curriculum. These results could also be the basis for developing future policies and programs to encourage entrepreneurial behavior, especially for secondary education students from the Romanian education system, specifically on pre-university education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The activities run in the present research were able to inform the target group and the general public on the objectives of training, which encourage sustainable development by promoting entrepreneurial culture among small businesses, their employees and potential entrepreneurs, including young people who want to start a business in urban areas, in towns under 50,000 inhabitants, and to facilitate their active role in community life by supporting their initiation, development and better manage their small business and self employment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]