Modelling youth entrepreneurship intentions: A ten-year research

Abstract

Entrepreneurship can have a crucial role in economic development. Youth entrepreneurship has even a greater role in economic growth. The underlying issues are the high youth unemployment rates in developing but also in developed countries as well. Improving the entrepreneurial climate and providing a “fertile” ground for venture creation is almost an imperative for increasing the number of young entrepreneurs and the number of entrepreneurs overall. In this paper, the results of an extensive, cross-sectional study conducted over ten-years, are presented. The study includes 5670 respondents - high school and university students from Serbia. The goal was to determine the predictors of youth entrepreneurship intentions in the domain of venture creation.