This paper aims to highlight entrepreneurship’s importance in today’s world as a paradoxical field. On the one hand, human resources have always worked on the labour market as either employees or employers, but today, the migration between the two specific categories has started to be more intense and people have just been developing the needed skills to run their own business (even if they are at the beginning of their career, in late-career or even retired) and to cope with entrepreneurial risks. On the other hand, business gurus on heels have appeared and feminine entrepreneurship has started to provide more and more good practices of business strategies. Hence, irrespective of the motivation of every entrepreneur, this concept highly developed in theory shall be more supported by real data on specific sub-samples. In this regard, we undertook a quantitative research on the Central Romanian Development Region (CRDR) so as to identify the profile of the future Romanian entrepreneur and to describe its funding needs and the major areas of business activity it would operate a new business according to its knowledge and skills.

Introduction

In our view, entrepreneurship may be defined as a process of improvising and adapting a new business to the opportunities appeared in the market according to the existing skills of the entrepreneur whereas developing other skills needed for running the new business. In this regard, theories on entrepreneurship may be divided into two categories: theories valuing the two herein expresses attributes, considering it simply too unpredictable (Lowe Nielsen, S, Klyver, K, Rostgaard Evald, M. & Bager, T., 2017:23) and theories stating that entrepreneurship is an intentional and planned process with a specific goal (Ajzen, 1991, Krueger & Brazeal, 1994 and Shaver, Gartner, Crosby, Bakalarova & Gatewood, 2001). If corroborating entrepreneurship with crisis management from the point of view of the people who want to start their own business or are employed with a company, our main issue is to determine what makes active population choose a job to running its own business or vice versa. In this respect, we shall analyse the consequences of gender and age gaps on entrepreneurship in the theoretical part of the paper focusing on the levels the human resources crisis appears, whereas in the second part we will present a piece of quantitative research aimed at identifying Romanians’ perception on entrepreneurship and their intentions with regard to running own businesses.