The Effects of University Students Entrepreneurial Education on Startup Intentions
AUTHORS
Ke Su,Tongmyong University, Busan, South Korea
Chae-Kwan Lim,Tongmyong University, Busan, South Korea
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to empirically demonstrate the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship results in university students. For this reason, the effect of entrepreneurship education on startup intentions was measured by a questionnaire survey of university students who took entrepreneurship education and related classes. The results showed that entrepreneurship education for university students has a significant effect on vocational values and entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and then significantly affects entrepreneurial intentions. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 340 students who took entrepreneurship education or related classes among Chinese university students, and the structural relationship between entrepreneurship education, vocational values, self-efficacy, and startup intentions was empirically verified. The results of this study are summarized as follows. First, entrepreneurship education for college students had a significant effect on job value. Second, the start-up education for college students had a significant effect on the self-efficacy of the start-up. Third, job value had a significant effect on entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Fourth, job value had a significant effect on entrepreneurial intention. finally, entrepreneurial self-efficacy had a significant effect on entrepreneurial intention.
KEYWORDS
Entrepreneurship education, University students, Startup intentions
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