Determinants and development of companies created through the UE projects on the example of selected people groups

Abstrakt

The role of micro-enterprises in the economy is invaluable. Their growth contributes to the increase of human capital, and influences necessary changes in the employment structure. Conducted research involved two groups of project participants, who took part in analogical projects. The first group consisted of people who had finished their education up to the age of 30, and the second group consisted of people aged above 50. The conditions for participation were the age criteria and having an unemployed person status. In the research, mostly statistical methods and the questionnaire method were used, consisting of presenting the participants with a specifically designed survey. The main aim of the research was to identify the main barriers of development of the established enterprises, and verification of the number of enterprises that decided to continue their commercial activity after the obligatory period imposed by the project. The results of the research constitute a different observation that the previous researches which have shown that it has been mainly people over 50 years old which were characterized by a higher risk than young people. At the same time, the received results may find use in future programs concerning promoting entrepreneurship of excluded people, and also better fit those projects to their needs. The need of conducting broader analysis covering a larger number of project participants from various regions, should also be considered.