Internationalization of New Ventures and the Central Role of The Nascent Entrepreneur

Abstract

This paper contributes to the understanding of the background conditions of the internationalization of new ventures in the context of entrepreneurial intentions of Polish students’ focused on entering foreign markets. The aim of the study is to examine undergraduates' entrepreneurial intentions concerning international activity on the example of students of Faculty of Management of Czestochowa University of Technology (FoMCUT). The name - international entrepreneurial intentions (IEI) is used for this kind of EI. Various aspects of IEI and additional determinants are discussed in the context of demographic characteristics of the sample. The study aims at the analysis of the symptoms of early internationalization of new ventures created in the future by the students of the Faculty. The conducted research leads to the conclusions concerning the level of IEI of the students of the faculty, which is strictly connected with the science and practice of management and entrepreneurship