Impact of university entrepreneurship programs in Algeria on students' attitudes towards establishing their own companies

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is one of the interesting fields to study and investigate about it; many scholars talked and wrote about this concept. According to them entrepreneurship is a one of the elements that help in developing the economic growth of countries, and entrepreneurs are persons with specific features and characteristics. During these years, the concept of entrepreneurship is trendy in the universities of Algeria. The government is working on creating a new generation of entrepreneurial students by setting up incubators is multiple universities. The incubators will help in this project by accompanying and guiding students to create their new ventures. These movements gave universities new mission which is promoting entrepreneurship among its students, and we can call them entrepreneurial universities. Moreover, the changes also help in developing new entrepreneurial ecosystem for students. Business schools in Algeria have programs and courses that help a student to be familiar with entrepreneurship and train him to be an entrepreneur. One of the aims of these programs is increasing the interest of students towards entrepreneurship and establishing their enterprises. Therefore, our objective is investigating on the impact of university entrepreneurship programs on students and their interest in starting their companies. To reach this aim we used two types of approaches. The first is quantitative, where we distributed a questionnaire between students. The second is a desk research; in this type we collected under the different programs of entrepreneurship. As a result of our study, we found out that there are multiple differences between the programs of entrepreneurship. These programs have an impact on students and their inclination towards entrepreneurship.