Youth Entrepreneurship Barriers and Role of Education in their Overcoming - Pilot Study

Entrepreneurship plays vital role in economic development. Unfortunately in case of many developed economies it is possible to observe low level of youth entrepreneurship. Among various reasons explaining this situation one is that in case of non necessity-driven entrepreneurship dominant in developed economies existence of numerous barriers is scaring off potential young entrepreneurs. The aim of this article is to identify those barriers and extent to which education can help to overcome them. First part of article is based on literature review, helping to understand role of barriers in preventing development of entrepreneurship, especially in regard to entrepreneurship of young people. Various barriers are identified and their role explained. Second part of article presents results from pilot study on perception of entrepreneurship barriers by young people, and role of education as a solution to overcome that barriers. Conducted in Poland survey focuses on identifying importance of certain barriers and how helpful proper education - including entrepreneurial education - can be in their overcoming, therefore presenting young people expectations toward entrepreneurial education systems.