Stimulating Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial skills and attitudes are not sufficiently encouraged amongst young people. This has a negative impact on the long-term success of European economies. BUSINESSEUROPE initiated this Laboratory to explore concrete pathways by which businesses could support entrepreneurship education and the creation of a more entrepreneurial mindset.

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• Small and medium-sized enterprises provide two-thirds of Europe's jobs in the private sector and the large majority of new jobs are created by SMEs
• The proportion of workers who are nascent entrepreneurs or owner-managers of a new business varies from 2% to 8.2% in the EU, compared to 9.6% in the US
• Across the EU, 60% of young people today say they are interested in entrepreneurship but less than 5% of them have access to entrepreneurship education in Europe

Stimulating an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Promoting Entrepreneurship Education

Entrepreneurial skills and attitudes are not sufficiently encouraged amongst young people. This has a negative impact on the long-term success of European economies.

BUSINESSEUROPE initiated this Laboratory to explore concrete pathways by which businesses could support entrepreneurship education and the creation of a more entrepreneurial mindset.

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Good Practice Across Europe (PDF)

This compilation includes examples of initiatives promoting the integration of entrepreneurship education in schools and universities as well as extra-curricular activities to stimulate entrepreneurial mindsets and develop enterprise skills.

Flyer: Stimulating an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Promoting Entrepreneurship (PDF)

The flyer presents the objectives and participants of the Laboratory group.

See Also . . .

• Read more about the CSR Laboratory on Stimulating an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Promoting Entrepreneurship Education
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• BUSINESSEUROPE

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