Awareness Survey of Social Science Students Regarding Entrepreneurship and Recommendations for Educational Strategies

Abstract

This research investigated the tendencies of first-year social science students' awareness of entrepreneurship in relation to the components of independence, which are essential skills for human resources who manage business conception, implementation, and management. As a result, found out that among the components of independence, “Imagination” is strongly associated to “Entrepreneurial motivation'', “Self-awareness'' and “Free-will'' are loosely associated with both “Entrepreneurial motivation'' and “Fear of failure”. Based on these, commentary on entrepreneurship through case studies of social and public interest businesses applying P2M theory, practice of career planning using both Logic model and SWOT analysis, commentary on startup management through guest speeches from graduate practitioners was proposed as a concrete educational strategy. In the future, we are slated to a follow-up survey will be conducted on human resources who have started a business and realized their long-term vision, and that their learning attitudes, processes, and training methods will be refined.