The Future of Education

This paper examines the connection between entrepreneurs’ education and the successful performance of enterprises in international business environment. The entry into foreign markets and the expansion of their presence abroad is connected with a set of knowledge and skills that entrepreneurs/managers and key specialists responsible for the growth and the internationalization of the business possess. The paper presents the findings of a survey carried out among 500 Bulgarian enterprises that in some form have taken part in international activities. At the same time programs have been examined that prepare the students studying entrepreneurship-related disciplines for the specificity, opportunities and challenges in the course of internationalization of a business’s operations. What has been taken account of is the expectations of the trained students that are the possible founders of their own business or will inherit their family firms. In the conclusions some inferences have been made about the education of future entrepreneurs, and the connection between the entrepreneurs’ education and the successful performance of enterprises in international market. The experience of the enterprises that have participated in the survey carried out under this piece of research has been taken into consideration.

Keywords: internationalization, education, entrepreneurship.

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