YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

154 In line with this, respondents identified job security as a very important factor, with 81.2% of young people rating this aspect of employment as fairly important (35.5%) or very important (45.7%). As a result, the desire to become self-employed is becoming less and less important for young people, as indicated by the following statement from one of the inter- viewees. “In my peer group, no one has ever seriously considered becoming an entre- preneur, because they usually think that you need a lot of start-up capital. I have often been labelled as brave.” (Daša, 25 years old, young entrepreneur and student) Despite the growing belief among young people that school equips them with the right amount of knowledge and motivation to start their own business, young people are less and less likely to prefer self-employment within their own business as their preferred form of employment. 3.5  YOUNG PEOPLE AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Social entrepreneurship, i.e. entrepreneurship aimed at social well-be- ing, is generally speaking an entrepreneurial activity with the ultimate goal of creating social value (Abu-Saifan, 2012). Social entrepreneurs are people with innovative solutions to major social, cultural, and envi- ronmental challenges (Ashoka, n.d.). A key characteristic of social en- trepreneurs is therefore that they combine an entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial skills with a socially beneficial and sustainable way of thinking and acting (Yokoyama and Birchley, 2018). The charac- teristics of an entrepreneurial mindset, such as creativity, courage, the ability to identify entrepreneurial opportunities, ambition, innovation, determination, growth orientation, efficiency, optimism, and proactiv- ity (Ireland, Hitt and Sirmon, 2003; Singh and Sharma, 2018; Yokoyama and Birchley, 2018), are therefore combined with a sustainable and so- cially responsible mindset in social entrepreneurship. A mindset of sus- tainability refers to the desire to improve the quality of life in general