Education for entrepreneurship: an approach oriented towards increasing the chances of success and avoiding premature failure

Abstract

Despite the effort of the public authorities to foster entrepreneurship in the last decades, the low entrepreneurial activity rate in Spain contrasts with the fact that our country is considered as one of the most favourable environments to undertake. In this context and considering the risks that this career-path entails, it is necessary to ponder whether it would be convenient to provide future entrepreneurs with the skills required to increase their chances of success before actually encouraging them to undertake. The object of this article is to uncover the determining factors of entrepreneurial success, as well as to assess their correlation with education, in the aim of acting upon them and achieving quality entrepreneurship. For this purpose, a review of the existent scientific literature on the subject was performed. After a thorough filtration process, 82 publications out of a preselection of 398 were used. Having analysed these sources, we arrived at the conclusion that in order to fulfil the above-mentioned objectives, it is crucial to integrate the entrepreneurial aptitudes and values in the education system from an early age, developing a formative strategy oriented towards providing future entrepreneurs with the tools that will determine their success and prevent premature failure.