Science and Administrative Studies. Our sample comprises of 112 students at Faculty of
Communication and Public Relations and at the Faculty of Management, both institutions
being part of the National School of Political Science and Administrative Studies in
Bucharest. At the moment when they participated to the survey, 79% were unemployed
students, 13% were students employed in the private sector, 3% were students employed in
the public sector, and 4% were students who worked voluntarily in non-profit
organizations. As regarding their age group, 11% were 18 years old, 53% were 19 years
old, and 13% were 20 years old. 78% came from urban medium and 22% from the rural
medium. 71% of them are female and 29% are male.
First of all we were interested in discovering the actual opinion of the young generation or
the Gen Y as regards to entrepreneurship, considering the fact that they are considered to be
natively wired to become entrepreneurs and leaders.
Research Question 1: How does the young generation perceive entrepreneurship?
Furthermore, considering the fact that the Y Generation is described as independent and
highly innovative our interest is to discover whether indeed young Romanians is drawn
towards starting up their business.
Research Question 2: To what degree are the members of the generation Y oriented
towards entrepreneurship
Our study, however, tries to go a bit further and investigate the reasons that stand behind
the decision of starting up a business. We tried to analyze the problems that the Gen Y may
encounter when opening a business and find out if they truly have a preference for the
online businesses, considering the fact that they are “digitally natives”.
Research Question 3: What are the main reasons of the Gen Y members for which they
want/do not want to start-up their own business?
Research Question 4: When it comes to starting-up a business what are the main domains,
financial resources and obstacles that the members of the Generation Y have?
Research Question 5: Are the members of the Generation Y inclined towards online
entrepreneurship? Why?