The influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intentions (original) (raw)
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Entrepreneurship education is so important in shaping and imparting entrepreneurial attitudes among graduates of the higher learning institutions. With this fact several higher learning institutions have decided to either establish entrepreneurship educational programmes or mainstreaming entrepreneurship modules into their curricular. Despite all these efforts few graduates engage on entrepreneurship activities. Therefore the study focused on assessing the effect of entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial behavior. Data were collected by using questionnaire from 233 Institute of Social Work graduates while descriptive statistics i.e., percentages and Mann Whitney U test were used in data analysis. The results indicate the positive effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial behavior. Additionally, the study recommends that every student must study entrepreneurship and it should be linked to students’ academic specializations.
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A study was undertaken at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania to establish the relationship between receiving entrepreneurship education at university level and studentteachers' intention to be involved in entrepreneurial work. Its main objective was to find statistically a significant correlation coefficient between the variables of the study. Literature had shown that there were empirical disagreements regarding the direction and strength of a correlation between the variables in question. The study employed correlation research methodology. The target population was Bachelor of Education in Commerce and Bachelor of Education in Adult and Community Education student-teachers at the School of Education. The results have shown that there is no statistically significant relationship between university entrepreneurial education and the entrepreneurial intentions of student-teachers at the University of Dar es Salaam. The null hypothesis was accepted because the point biserial correlation = 0.071, p-value (0.681) was greater than the study's alpha value (0.05). There was no statistically significant correlation between university entrepreneurship education and having high entrepreneurial intentions among student-teachers at the School of Education, University of Dar es Salaam, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Mlimani campus. This was because r pb (0.071) was not significantly different from zero at 34 degrees of freedom, 0.05 level of significance because it was below +.3494. The study's consequence is that these findings justify further investigation of the study's foci in order to arrive at a conclusive irrefutable viewpoint. It appears that additional investigation is warranted.
International journal of research in social sciences, 2014
The growing body of literature is arguing that entrepreneurial intentions play a significant role in the decision-making process of becoming an entrepreneur. Bolstering the entrepreneurial and innovation-oriented mindsets, primarily among younger generations, might be considered crucial for the successful economic and social evolvement. Detecting the appropriate reasons which induce youngsters, especially students, to become entrepreneurs is a potentially valuable input for different policymakers and a problem explored in this paper. Personal attitudes, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control are called motivational ' antecedents' of entrepreneurial intentions and has been thoroughly studied within the theory of planned behaviour, developed by Ajzen (1991). The applicability of Ajzen' s model for predicting the main antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions were successfully tested in this study among students with or without international studying experience, as well as distinctions considering several background (individual and social) factors. The results of the correlation and regression analysis pointed out that personal attitudes towards entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ability represent the most relevant components of the theory of planned behaviour model, while subjective norms have a minor role. Statistically significant differences were found in six factors: age, family background, household incomes, profession, country of origin, and student exchange programmes. These results confirmed previous conclusions about the explanation power of Ajzen' s model to predict entrepreneurial intentions and brought empirical evidence about studying abroad experience which has a noticeable impact on predictors of entrepreneurial intention among students, which potentially deserves additional incentives from policymakers and higher education institutions.
Asian Journal of Business and Management, 2021
Entrepreneurship of young graduates is fundamental in mitigating the challenge of unemployment, while the role of universities is considered to be very important in developing entrepreneurial behavior. Thus, the present study aims to assess entrepreneurial traits and intention among undergraduate students at Catholic University of Health and Allied sciences -Mwanza, Tanzania. The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in May 2021 at Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences. Three hundred and thirty-one (331) undergraduates were selected by stratified random sampling. Pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data. Data were fed into Microsoft excel and then exported to STATA version 14 for analysis and data were presented in frequencies, percentages and mean. The level of entrepreneurial traits of the students was moderate with overall mean of 3.6. Majority (285, 86.1%) of students thought of themselves as capable of opening and sustainin...
Univesitry Industry Linkage, 2016
With the rapid population growth and expansion of higher learning institutions unemployment of university graduates will be a major socioeconomic problem in Ethiopia. Given the increasing importance of entrepreneurship in contemporary careers, this research uses quantitative survey methods to uncover the determinants of students' entrepreneurial intentions. The total population of the study was nine hundred sixty seven (967) graduating class students of Assosa University and Government TVET College in BenishangulGumuzRegional States and the sample size 282 respectively.The data was gathered through questionnaire and Yamane's sample size determination method was used. The data obtained through questionnaire was first statistically analyzed through statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 20.First the data was analyzed with a descriptive statistical analysis and then mean and standard deviation were computed for the interpretation of respondents' characteristics and their entrepreneurial intentions. Then the Cronbach's coefficient alpha was employed to test reliability.Further, correlation and multiple regression techniques was conducted to test whether there was a positive significant relationship between social norm, personal attitude, perceived behavioral control, formal entrepreneurship education program and gender and students entrepreneurship intentions. The research result reveals that significant number of graduating class students' job preference right after graduation was government or private employment and majority of students do not have short-term self-employment plan in the foreseeable future after graduation. However, students' personal attitude towards entrepreneurship was positive and their entrepreneurial interest relatively highbut the execution of this interest in practice is insteadlow. Personal attitude and perceived behavioral control are emerges as the most important determinant of entrepreneurial intention. Where the impact of entrepreneurship education is concerned, the entrepreneurship course offered by the institutes under study was unable to motivate, encourage and equip students with necessary courage, skills and knowledge to create jobs. Furthermore, it'sadvised that entrepreneurship education should focus practically on development of competencies related to entrepreneurshipand cultural awareness.
Entrepreneurial Tendencies of Tanzanian University Graduates : Evidence from University of Dar
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Entrepreneurship plays a key role in social-economic development of developing countries such as Tanzania where both poverty and unemployment are high. The relationship between unemployment and entrepreneurship is double-faceted. On the one hand, the literature has established that unemployment stimulates entrepreneurial activity, which has been termed as a “refugee effect”. On the other hand, literature has recognized that higher levels of entrepreneurship reduce unemployment; this has been termed as the “Schumpeter effect”. This paper is built within the Schumpeterian effect-theory, which emphasizes that, entrepreneurship reduces unemployment. In order for graduates to become entrepreneurs, positive attitude or tendency towards entrepreneurship is required. Persons with higher entrepreneurial tendencies are said to have positive inclination towards entrepreneurship. It is in this viewpoint that the government of Tanzania has accentuated entrepreneurship training programmes within ...
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This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education in developing entrepreneurial intentions among students in HEIs in Blantyre District of Malawi. A mixed method approach consisting of quantitative and qualitative methods was employed. In total 60 participants were purposively sampled for the study of which 42 responded to the questionnaire that was administered. This represents a response rate of 70%. Data collection was conducted through structured questionnaires to all respondents. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of educating students in entrepreneurship and this effect is on their intentions tobecome entrepreneurs in HEIs in Blantyre District. The length of an entrepreneurship education moderated this effect. The respondents who were self-employed after completing their entrepreneurship education and training had a lower entrepreneurial intention at the beginning of the programme compared to the respondents who had not become self-employed. An analysis of the development of entrepreneurial intention after the end of the entrepreneurship programme showed that after the end of the programme, entrepreneurial intentions had increased significantly. Thus, education and training in entrepreneurship is established to be a trigger that positively impacts entrepreneurial intention.
This paper identifies the demographic determinants of entrepreneurial entry decisions amongst Tanzanian graduates. A crosssectional design was used in gathering information, whereby structured questionnaire was applied. Systematic random sampling was employed to get the required sample size. Cross tabulation was used to compare the entrepreneurial entry intention between graduates who had studied entrepreneurship and those who had not studied entrepreneurship. Logistic regression analysis was applied to assess the impact of demographic factors on entrepreneurial entry. It was found that graduates sex, age, birth order position and marital status significantly contributed to predicting graduates entrepreneurial entry decisions. It was further found that marital status had greatest contribution than all four significant factors implying that married graduates had stronger aspiration of becoming entrepreneurs than singles. The results were statistically significant at p < 0.05. Organizations intending to make any intervention on graduate entrepreneurship in Tanzania are urged to focus on married graduates. A study on joint venture creation among graduates is required. Researchers should focus on the contribution of joint venture in counterbalancing negative effects of age differences as well as the harmful effects of birth order positions due to their inborn or upbringings weaknesses.
The purpose of this study was to determine the entrepreneurial intention of graduating universities students in Ethiopian and to identify factors which influence students' entrepreneurial behavior. A survey design was employed where 665 final year university students from five universities were randomly selected as participants. Quantitative data were collected through self-evaluation survey questionnaire and analyzed using Pearson Correlation and Logistic Regression. Additionally, data from open-ended questions were used to identify factors which influence students' entrepreneurial behavior. The study found high entrepreneurial intention for final year university students in Ethiopia, but, low propensity to venture into business within two years after graduating. Findings from the Logistic Regression analysis found strong support for perceived feasibility, perceived desirability and course support as predictors of entrepreneurial intention, and to some extent perceived locus of control, but, gender and prior experience in a business had no effect. Barriers that deter entrepreneurial attitude include: poor government support (policies and bureaucracy), institutional issues (lack of start-up capital, business premises, and poor access to adequate and quality inputs and markets), personal issues (lack of self-confidence and motivation, fear of failure, poor entrepreneurial skills and knowledge on opportunity identification), and societal issues (society/family support and perception). From this study, it was concluded that university students recognize entrepreneurship as the way forward for curbing unemployment, but, universities need to equip students with relevant competencies that are appropriate for business start-up. The government on its part should provide positive business environment and proper infrastructure for starting a new business.
European Journal of Business and Management, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether the course, entrepreneurship education is yielding the desired result of enhancing the capabilities of Nigerian graduates by creating in them the right mindset towards creating their own businesses rather than looking for non existing jobs. This is achieved through the analysis of relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention among students of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi Uku. This study made use of survey research design and was centered on only the final year students of the department of business administration. Data were collected for the study through the administration of structured questionnaires from three hundred and fifty (350) students of which three hundred and forty (340) were retrieved. Data analysis made use of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results from the regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurship education has a positive influence on entrepreneurial intentions of students with R squared value of 0.751, p-value = 0.000 which implies that 75 percent of the variation in entrepreneurial intentions is explained by variation in entrepreneurship education of students. From the studies, it was also discovered that personality has strong influence on students' intention to venture into businesses after their graduation from school, with an R squared value of 0.737 and a p-value of 0.000. This informed the rejection of the null hypothesis that personality has no significant influence on entrepreneurship intention of students of Delta state polytechnic to venture into their own businesses after their education. It is therefore a matter of further research to investigate the reasons why graduates find it difficult to complete the AIDA cycle of Awareness, Interest, Desire and Action. Entrepreneurial education has greatly helped to create attention and stimulate both their interest and desire to venture into businesses. What is left is therefore the final push to put into practice what they have learnt.