Abstract
Eastern European countries, including Romania, cannot take advantage of an initial, natural and challenging model, the nationalized and centralized system of the communist economies having reduced to zero the entrepreneurial capacities of today’s adult persons who should be success models for youngsters. According to Smallbone and Welter (2001), the recent history of these countries can’t represent an authentic model for the entrepreneurship based on knowledge. Over 40 % of the Eastern European countries’ businesses represent: the translation of the already performing activities from the public sector, the identified type of entrepreneurship being a type of ‘nomenclature business’, with thousands of companies operating in a formal economy, with only one employee, part-time business, without any elements of innovation and value for client, in these companies the bureaucratic structures from the state sector being copied and respected just so (Smallbone and Welter 2001).
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Published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 301 in 1997;
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Published in the Official Journal of Romania no. 293 on 3 May 2007;
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This research was supported by the Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development (SOP HRD), financed from the European Social Fund and by the Romanian Government under the contract number SOP HRD/89/1.5/S/62988.
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Ciucan-Rusu, L., Szabo, Z.K. (2013). The Pyramid of Entrepreneurship in Romania: Towards New Approach. In: Ramadani, V., Schneider, R. (eds) Entrepreneurship in the Balkans. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36577-5_14
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