Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Values: Evaluation of Macedonia

The paper elaborates the main findings of a survey conducted in the line of evaluation identifing challenges that need to be overcome for the development of entrepreneurship: low level of entrepreneurial spirit and culture. The paper intends to assess the current situation between indicators of entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial activities through the perceptions and attitudes as the identification of business opportunities, business skills and perception of business. For this purpose we analyzed the results of relevant research of the Organization of Employers of Macedonia (ORM) and the Business Confederation of Macedonia (BCM) with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO). Moreover, the paper listed the specific problems that can be strengthened economic growth and national policies for entrepreneurship. The goal of research is to provide evidence for the existence of a gap between entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial activity, resulting in fewer new or high growth businesses that the entrepreneurs are facing in Macedonia. The contribution of this paper consists the enrichment of the weakly developed academic work in Macedonia for resolving this issue.