Acquisition of entrepreneurial skills during and after university studies: case of Latvia

This study explores situation in acquisition entrepreneurial skills through academic and professional formal higher education and informal education programs. Attitudes of the university graduates concerning start of their own business and factors hindering beginnings of their entrepreneurial activities are analysed. The goal of this study is to analyze a skills during and after university studies in Latvia, to highlight main problems and to describe recent initiatives to secure improvements. Study covers the time period from 2003 till 2012.