A social work study on different entrepreneurship opportunities


Zahra Zakeri Nasrabadi, Asghar Nikbakht and Ali Solimani Rad


Entrepreneurs are big potentials for developing economy in any countries. They provide new job opportunities and help economy boost. There are literally many industries, which rely on new these people and they are considered as the primary source of generating new jobs. In this paper, we discuss three entrepreneurship opportunities including universities, technical and vocational centers and women. Universities are able to educate highly skilled people and send them to business and they are able to create new ideas. Technical and vocational centers are, in fact, the best place for training basic or recent advances in technological skills through short term or long term planning. The survey also indicates that women can be considered as a good source of job creation. In this paper, we review the recent related literature on entrepreneurship opportunities in the world and discuss some of the related issues more specifically in Iran.


DOI: j.msl.2012.05.022

Keywords: Entrepreneurship ,Job opportunity ,Women ,Entrepreneurs

How to cite this paper:

Nasrabadi, Z., Nikbakht, A & Rad, A. (2012). A social work study on different entrepreneurship opportunities.Management Science Letters, 2(6), 2231-2236.


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