Entrepreneurship Education Between Perceptions and Expectations. Case Study: University Politehnica of Bucharest

Alexe, Cătălin George; Deselnicu, Dana Corina; Ioanid, Alexandra; Tiganoaia, Bogdan; Mustata, Cristian

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“…The degree program is the most investigated factor in the students' entrepreneurship literature, in relation or not with career anchors, the profession of parents, proactive personality etc. [28,39] and it is widely recognized that business orientation is significant determinant of students' attitude toward entrepreneurship [26] and entrepreneurial education should be extended outside the business school [43], especially at engineering programs [3,5]. Other investigated factors are gender and residential area, the findings show, as expected, that male and urban students are more inclined to affairs than women [6] or those in rural areas [25].…”

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“…Despite studies that demonstrated the impact of higher education on entrepreneurial decision [11,41], empirical analysis that suggests that the start-up decision is "significantly positively related to the entrepreneurial orientation of the university" [25] a n d numerous case studies that explore the efficiency of entrepreneurial university supply worldwide, including Romania [3,26,42] the mechanism of triggering the students' entrepreneurial intentions has not been fully understood.…”

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Antecedents, Experiences and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Economics Students

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The paper is part of a larger research aims to increase the impact of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become an entrepreneur. Based on the literature in the field of youth entrepreneurship and the theory of planned behaviour, the research considers attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control towards entrepreneurship as students' antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions and exposure to entrepreneurial models, work experience and intuition of trigger events as entrepreneurial experiences. In this context, the paper findings about entrepreneurial intentions of a group of 200 undergraduate students in the first year of study from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Oradea, Romania, before access to formal entrepreneurship education or/and other entrepreneurial education opportunities. The research tests according with theory of planned behavior if there is a positive correlation between students' antecedents, respectivelly experiences and entrepreneurial intentions. Additionally, the research tests whether there is any link between gender, the residential environment (urban, rural), the family origin and the entrepreneurial intentions of the students. The research results allow university to design entrepreneurial educational offer (curricula, programs, extra-curricular activities, practicebased learning etc.) in order to compensate initially perceived lack of support and expose students to experiences that stimulate their entrepreneurial intentions. Also, the research findings provide managerial implications and policy recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and programs. Future research steps seek hypothesis retesting for Economics students after access to entrepreneurship education and address other groups of students from non-economic fields of study where, traditionally, the offer of entrepreneurial education is poor or non-existent.

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Antecedents, Experiences and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Economics Students

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“…Compared with previous studies in the field at the national level [50,51,54], our cross-campus working sample with students from 14 non-economics fields of studies respond to the increasing demand for EE outside the Economics and Business schools. Economics students benefit from many other courses that influence EI.…”

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“…Numerous empirical studies that explore the efficiency of entrepreneurial university supply worldwide, including Romania [21,[50][51][52][53][54], show that the EI is significantly positively related to the entrepreneurial orientation of the university [46]. It is widely recognized that business orientation is a significant determinant of students' attitude toward entrepreneurship [21,55,56], and entrepreneurial education should be extended outside the business school [57], especially at engineering programs [50,58]. HCT and SCT provide thereby the two theoretical perspective linking EE to EI and further on to entrepreneurship behavior.…”

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A Partial Least-Square Mediation Analysis of the Contribution of Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship Education to Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

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The present paper presents findings of entrepreneurial intentions of a group of 313 undergraduate students of the University of Oradea, Romania, from different non-economic fields of study (engineering, health, social sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, humanities, and arts), including students from rural areas and other disadvantaged groups enrolled in an entrepreneurship education project financed through European Social Fund. A complex mediation chain is set in place in a net of relationships linking the benefits of entrepreneurial education to entrepreneurship self-efficacy, entrepreneurship attitudes, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norms in our estimation of entrepreneurial intentions. Using a multigroup analysis, we address the OECD inclusive entrepreneurship perspective of students ‘at-risk’ on the labor market and under-represented in entrepreneurship, identifying how the benefits of entrepreneurship education can be better capitalized by each category. The present paper advocates the necessity to extend entrepreneurship education outside the economics and business specializations.

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Entrepreneurship Education Between Perceptions and Expectations. Case Study: University Politehnica of Bucharest

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Antecedents, Experiences and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Economics Students

Antecedents, Experiences and Entrepreneurial Intentions among Economics Students

A Partial Least-Square Mediation Analysis of the Contribution of Cross-Campus Entrepreneurship Education to Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

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