The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurial behavior of individuals is a result of a complex assembly of factors, and education is one of them. The article is aiming to address the scientific gap in the relation between education and the intention and attitudes in entrepreneurship by focusing on the analysis of the economi...
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| author | Garofița Loredana Ilieș Iulia Cristina Mureșan Iulia Diana Arion Felix H. Arion |
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| description | The entrepreneurial behavior of individuals is a result of a complex assembly of factors, and education is one of them. The article is aiming to address the scientific gap in the relation between education and the intention and attitudes in entrepreneurship by focusing on the analysis of the economic and entrepreneurial background as a determinant factor. Besides that, the study looked for the factors that influence entrepreneurial intention and intended to find out if there are significant differences between economic and non-economic backgrounds and entrepreneurial intentions of individuals. A survey with 582 validated respondents was employed in the north-west and the west part of Romania to determine the entrepreneurial intention of the residents. For investigating the results, descriptive statistics were used to analyze the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents, and principal component analysis with varimax rotation was conducted to reduce the number of items used to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of the respondents. The study demonstrated the significance of entrepreneurial education for entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process: the higher variance is given by entrepreneurial intention (58.75%) for those with economic studies and by entrepreneurial capacity (58.39%) for those without economic studies. It concludes that entrepreneurial education policies should concentrate on the increase of opportunities for entrepreneurs and on creating a culture of entrepreneurship. Regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurial capacity, personal attraction, social valuation, and entrepreneurial education/economic background significantly predict entrepreneurial intention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-62d1a889b9954e1986d3a0c74cba1f302023-11-19T15:16:29ZengMDPI AGAdministrative Sciences2076-33872023-09-01131021210.3390/admsci13100212The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards EntrepreneurshipGarofița Loredana Ilieș0Iulia Cristina Mureșan1Iulia Diana Arion2Felix H. Arion3Department of Economic Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaDepartment of Economic Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaDepartment of Forestry, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaDepartment of Economic Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaThe entrepreneurial behavior of individuals is a result of a complex assembly of factors, and education is one of them. The article is aiming to address the scientific gap in the relation between education and the intention and attitudes in entrepreneurship by focusing on the analysis of the economic and entrepreneurial background as a determinant factor. Besides that, the study looked for the factors that influence entrepreneurial intention and intended to find out if there are significant differences between economic and non-economic backgrounds and entrepreneurial intentions of individuals. A survey with 582 validated respondents was employed in the north-west and the west part of Romania to determine the entrepreneurial intention of the residents. For investigating the results, descriptive statistics were used to analyze the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents, and principal component analysis with varimax rotation was conducted to reduce the number of items used to analyze the entrepreneurial intention of the respondents. The study demonstrated the significance of entrepreneurial education for entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process: the higher variance is given by entrepreneurial intention (58.75%) for those with economic studies and by entrepreneurial capacity (58.39%) for those without economic studies. It concludes that entrepreneurial education policies should concentrate on the increase of opportunities for entrepreneurs and on creating a culture of entrepreneurship. Regression analysis revealed that entrepreneurial capacity, personal attraction, social valuation, and entrepreneurial education/economic background significantly predict entrepreneurial intention.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/13/10/212entrepreneurentrepreneurial intentionentrepreneurship attitudeentrepreneurship educationentrepreneurial capacitysocial valuation |
| spellingShingle | Garofița Loredana Ilieș Iulia Cristina Mureșan Iulia Diana Arion Felix H. Arion The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship Administrative Sciences entrepreneur entrepreneurial intention entrepreneurship attitude entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial capacity social valuation |
| title | The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship |
| title_full | The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship |
| title_fullStr | The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship |
| title_short | The Influence of Economic and Entrepreneurial Education on Perception and Attitudes towards Entrepreneurship |
| title_sort | influence of economic and entrepreneurial education on perception and attitudes towards entrepreneurship |
| topic | entrepreneur entrepreneurial intention entrepreneurship attitude entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial capacity social valuation |
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