Abstract. The present paper has as core point the topic of the impact of cultural and educational accumulations on the Romanian entrepreneurial behavior. Its main goal is to set a framework on which to trace/define strategic directions in educational and cultural policies in order to increase the level of competitiveness of the Romanian business environment using as a first phase a literature review of main theories and concepts related to the correlations to be established between education, level of society maturity and propensity for starting a business, as well as correlations based on statistical data between number of tertiary education graduates from social sciences, business, law and number of established start-ups.

Keywords: education, business environment, entrepreneurial behavior, theoretic and applied approaches.