Artikel

Entrepreneurial intention among engineering students: The role of entrepreneurship education

Partly due to the current crisis and its high unemployment rates, the labor market increasingly requires multidisciplinary engineers with additional skills to their own. Engineering education therefore faces new challenges and these include equipping engineers with greater entrepreneurship. Although entrepreneurship education has consequently been integrated into the new engineering degrees, is this enough to boost entrepreneurship among engineers and on what does their level of entrepreneurship depend? This research work aims to analyze the impact of entrepreneurial motivations on entrepreneurial intentions among future engineers and identify the role than entrepreneurship education plays in the development of the engineers’ entrepreneurship. The results indicate that the need for independence is the key factor in the entrepreneurial intent of future engineers and confirm the positive contribution that entrepreneurship education has on their entrepreneurial intentions. Finally, recommendations are offered which could help the various agents involved increase the effectiveness of actions aimed at promoting firm creation in this area.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: European Research on Management and Business Economics (ERMBE) ; ISSN: 2444-8834 ; Volume: 24 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 53-61 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Klassifikation
Management
Higher Education; Research Institutions
New Firms; Startups
Thema
Entrepreneurship education
Job motivation
Entrepreneurial intent
Engineering education

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Barba-Sánchez, Virginia
Atienza-Sahuquillo, Carlos
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Elsevier
(wo)
Amsterdam
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.1016/j.iedeen.2017.04.001
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Barba-Sánchez, Virginia
  • Atienza-Sahuquillo, Carlos
  • Elsevier

Entstanden

  • 2018

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