Innovation, SMEs, and the Entrepreneurship Education Related to Them

Abstract

The massification of the higher education; the form of organization of Albanian companies, where most of them are micro and small enterprises; as well as the necessity to compete in a market which is everyday becoming more globalized and where the new technologies everyday innovate products and services raise the requirement to also include in the university curricula, beyond the economic and engineering sciences, subjects closely associated with entrepreneurship, business start-up, managing a business during the first years and drafting of a simple growth and marketing plan (Drucker, 1985). The European Commission programs and directives, as well as the European experience about entrepreneurship education, will be elaborated in this study, aiming to confront them with the present situation of our universities and to represent the need to set up entrepreneurship chairs and business incubators in them. The entrepreneurship education requires the identifying of an instrument that would commit together universities, businesses and public institutions, so that the resulting output of the collaboration would be the innovation and the success of business enterprises in market, as well as diminishing unemployment rates and achieving economic growth for the country.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n6p69