ANALYZING ENTREPRENEURIAL POTENTIAL - A COMPARISON OF STUDENTS IN GERMANY AND GREECE.

The paper arises from the empirical project "Starting up Businesses and Entrepreneurship by Students" (GESt-study) and aims comparing the criteria influencing business start-up propensities and activities of students in Germany and Greece, in order to provide an overview of the prospective trend of students' and graduates' entrepreneurship in these two countries. The students in Germany are more often both interested in business venturing and preparing their entrepreneurial activity than their fellows in Greece who have more frequently already founded an enterprise. However, in both countries the students usually seem being not sufficiently prepared to launch a business and thus need the impartment of entrepreneurial basic knowledge and skills. The findings indicate the importance of advancing entrepreneurship education and support in Germany and Greece by considering the contextual framework conditions and individual requirements of the students having various accesses to resources and being located in diverse phases of the start-up process [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]