COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION OF CROATIAN AND SWEDEN STUDENTS

Entrepreneurial orientation is manifested through the dimensions of innovation, proactivity, risk-taking, competitiveness and autonomy. Numerous factors are responsible for its formation, and along with one\u27s personality, one of the factors could as well be the influence of culture and education. Different cultures specify diverse expectations of an entrepreneurial career. The focus of this paper was the comparison of entrepreneurial orientation of Croatian and Swedish students. Croatian students show significantly lower entrepreneurial intention than Swedish students, and positive attitudes are more frequent with Swedish students. Swedish students consider the entrepreneurial climate to be more evident in their schools than Croatian students. Confidence in their own entrepreneurial skills for Croatian students is dependent on the support of the environment, which is not the case with Swedish students whose confidence depends solely on how individually entrepreneurial they are