A qualitative study on the necessary content for entrepreneurship training courses in the viewpoint of young entrepreneurs

The purpose of present study was to qualitatively investigate the neccassary content for entrepreneurship training courses in the viewpoint of young entrepreneurs who lived in Yazd province, in order to providing more effective training courses.

This study was a qualitative research that using grounded theory. The population of the study consisted of men and women who participated in entrepreneurship courses held in Yazd province during 2011-2017 and are currently known as entrepreneur. Purposeful sampling was performed until the theoretical saturation of the interviews. Finally, 20 individuals (16 males and 4 females) were interviewed in a semi-structured manner and then the interviews were analyzed using three phases of open, axial and selective coding.

The results showed that in order to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training courses, in intrapersonal dimension, several skills such as self-management, independence, social skills, motivational factors, control and orientation of problems, personality traits, emotional self-regulation and identifying and correcting of cognitive errors should be considered. In interpersonal dimension, coping with destructive behaviors, efficient interpersonal relationships, and social and organizational motivations are more important. In the occupational dimension, legal knowledge, economic, technology knowledge and networking knowledge should be considered. Finally, in the educational dimension, training prerequisites and structural and legal factors must be taken into account in order to have better entrepreneurship training courses. Finally, paradigm model of the content of entrepreneurship training courses was presented.

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that educational content of the current entrepreneurship training courses should be revised.