Arguably, entrepreneurship is still a recent phenomenon in French society, and its higher education establishments are still experimenting with ways to teach entrepreneurship and enterprise creation. This paper presents a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the entrepreneurial intention of French higher education students at three different establishments (a management Grande École, an engineering Grande École and a university) using the Shapero intention model. The study found that most of the students wanted to work in large organizations and were not intending to create a new company or work in a family business. There were significant differences, however, between management and engineering students in terms of their entrepreneurial environment, which may affect their attitudes to new business creation. The authors conclude that, while enforced learning through entrepreneurial courses and seminars may initially be off-putting, such initiatives may have longer-term beneficial impacts on entrepreneurial intention.
Le métier d'ingénieur change et il leur est demandé d'être également des manageurs-entrepreneurs. Cette recherche vise à comprendre dans quelle mesure il est possible de développer la culture entrepreneuriale d'une population d'élèves ingénieurs dans un délai assez court par le biais d'une pédagogie interactive et ludique, fondée sur une stratégie précise. Cette recherche est originale car elle s'inscrit dans le champ de l'acculturation et non dans celui des intentions. La notion de culture entrepreneuriale renvoie à celle plus large de culture et mobilise l'entrepreneuriat comme processus de création de valeur et acteur du développement de l'esprit entrepreneurial (ou esprit d'entreprendre) et ce, quelle que soit la situation.
The creation or emergence of a marketable opportunity that promises significant prospects for gain represents the key factor in the entrepreneurial process. The decision to create a new venture often arises from the belief that a unique opportunity has been created or identified. The entrepreneurial opportunity has become widely accepted as a central concept in the field of entrepreneurship research (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). Opportunities can be conceptualized from different viewpoints, such as the objectivist (
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