Study concerning the evolution of the entrepreneurship initiative in the West region.

Izvercianu, Monica ; Tion, Monica ; Negru-Strauti, Gabriela 等

1. INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurship represents the ability of an individual to transform ideas into actions with a well-defined economical and social finality. This includes creativity, innovation and risk assuming as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to acquire certain objectives. The entrepreneurship abilities make the employees realizes the context of their activities and gives them the capability to identify and materialize the opportunities and also constitutes the fundament for unrolling the social and commercial activities.

The countries that have a high rate of entrepreneurship register a low rate of unemployment. Moreover, social systems are constantly under an increasing pressure due to the migration of the occupied people in the last decade. Europe wants to successfully maintain the social model and so it needs a sustained economical development, more new firms and more entrepreneurs that contribute to the innovation development and more developing SMEs.

On a European level, most strategic documents put forward certain methods for promoting and developing entrepreneurship, starting with the Lisbon Strategy and continuing with the Partnership for economical development and occupation or the Action Plan for entrepreneurship.

2. HISTORY CONCERNING THE EVOLUTION

OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE IN THE WEST REGION OF ROMANIA

The West region recorded an increase regarding the number of firms between 1999 and 2005 (from 30.340 in 1999 to 45.548 in 2005).

Concerning the weight of the active firms relative to the total number of registered firms we can notice a continuous increase from one year to another, from 9.16% in 1999 to 9.79% in 2005.

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The rate of vacant people in the West region has increased from 6.8% in 1999 to 7.03%, even though the number of newly established firms has grown and the density of the population has decreased as well.

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In Romania though, there is still a barely noticeable preoccupation for developing entrepreneurship and sustaining actual entrepreneurs. Romania's economical growth should be based on economic activities with an increased added value, there being the need for passing from an economical model based solely on the export of gross base or basic manufactured, to economical activities that ensure a superior degree of manufacturing, capable of generating added value.

3. ACTUAL SITUATION OF THE INTEREST

FIELDS FOR THE WESTERN ROMANIAN ENTREPRENEURS

As you can see the most interest field for entrepreneurs is wholesale and retail because the investment is low at the beginning.

3.1 Actual state of the entrepreneurial initiative according to the number of registration and radiation companies

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If it can be drawn up a Romanian Entrepreneur from 5 West Region "portrait" as being a mature male, 41 years old on average, which starts up the business at an age of approximately 33 years, with good professional readiness (mainly technical or economical) and with a desire of a better earning or in order to develop self-safety. Determination in starting up and developing a new business--recognizing the opportunities offered in the environment, combining the resources in order to fructify the opportunities, developing a strategy to utilize the resources in order to exploit the opportunity and structuring an organization capable of applying that strategy--all of them having roots in enterpriser's behaviors and decisions. Future research will include mastering an action plan to lower entrepreneur's age and expanding this survey on national level.

4. CONCLUSION AND FORECAST

In the first trimester of 2009 there have been over 800 bankruptcies, out of which 157 only in the Timis County. The rate of unemployment is growing, reaching 2.47% in the present, and the estimations after the announced dismissals indicate a value of 3.5% at the end of June.

While considering the industrial production prognoses on different types of activities, we can say that the next two years will register a slight decrease, following with the fact that in 2011 there will be a refreshing in the affected industrial fields. The increase of dynamism and internationalization of the Romanian entrepreneurial base is the way through which the economy can develop to answer the requests and opportunities of the unique market.

Romania should invest in the development of the SME sector and in promoting the entrepreneurial culture in order to create the necessary frame for the appearance of new businesses, because the growing and successfully competing capacity of an economy depends on the existence of an optimal number of firms by encouraging the entrepreneurial initiative and the dynamic management of businesses. Research has proved that there exists a positive correlation between the entrepreneurship and the economical growth. An economical growth based on innovation and excellence needs as many entrepreneurial initiatives as possible in order to create increasingly more and better work places.

5. REFERENCES

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Romanian Statistical Yearbook (2006). Available from: http://portal.feaa.uaic.ro/C7/Biblioteca/Document%20Libra ry/Anuarul%20Statistic%202006/ASR_2006_integral.pdf Enterprise Activity, pp.600-605, Accessed: 2008-06-12

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Tab. 1. Fields of interests for entrepreneurs

CAEN Fields Active Turnover of
 Local Units Active Local
 [number of Units
 units] [RON million
 current prices]

Wholesale and retail 17991 16329

Real estate transactions, 7374 1561
renting and service
activities mainly
rendered to enterprises

Manufacturing 6008 14774

Construction 3127 2939

Transport, storage and 2739 3457
communications

Hotels and restaurants 2373 513

Education and Health 1001 122
and social assistance

Mining and quarrying 129 846

Electric and thermal 64 2648
energy, gas and water

Total 40806 43189

Fig. 1. Number of active enterprises in the West
region of Romania for the period 1999-2005

1999 30.340
2000 31.679
2001 32.415
2002 33.280
2003 36.677
2004 40.886
2005 45.548

Note: Table made from bar graph.

Fig. 3. Rate of unemployment during 2005-2008

2005 5,1
2006 4,1
2007 3,8
2008 3,7

Note: Table made from bar graph.

Fig. 5. Average number of employed people

 Total Economy West

2005 4558,9 484,1
2006 4667,3 501,8
2007 4770 511,8
2008 4865 525,7

Note: Table made from bar graph.