Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education
Facing the challenging employment situation and the changing labor market, developing student entrepreneurial intention has attracted significant policy consideration in China. This study describes the background of entrepreneurship education in China’s higher education institutes and explores the i...
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| description | Facing the challenging employment situation and the changing labor market, developing student entrepreneurial intention has attracted significant policy consideration in China. This study describes the background of entrepreneurship education in China’s higher education institutes and explores the influences of entrepreneurship education on student entrepreneurial intention. Using data from a survey on students in China, this study finds that students in different types of institutions and different major fields had a different level of engagement in entrepreneurship education. Further, the higher the level of entrepreneurship education the students received, the stronger their self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making was, and the stronger their entrepreneurial intention was. Student entrepreneurial decision-making self-efficacy played a mediating role between entrepreneurship education and student entrepreneurial intention. We found that entrepreneurship education has a positive effect on entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurship education course-taking has a positive effect on entrepreneurial decision-making. Furthermore, the positive effect of self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making on entrepreneurial intention was also confirmed. We also found that self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making played the significant role of mediator between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. The findings also showed a difference between the current China context and the western context that taking entrepreneurship-related classes had more considerable influences on student entrepreneurial intention than entrepreneurship-related practicum. We discuss the implications of the improvement of higher education in China and relevance to other contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9e0d29176554860b936dd6e01dd9b122023-11-20T14:35:23ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022020-09-0110925710.3390/educsci10090257Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher EducationHong Mei0Ching-Hung Lee1Yuanyuan Xiang2School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaSchool of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaSavannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA 30309, USAFacing the challenging employment situation and the changing labor market, developing student entrepreneurial intention has attracted significant policy consideration in China. This study describes the background of entrepreneurship education in China’s higher education institutes and explores the influences of entrepreneurship education on student entrepreneurial intention. Using data from a survey on students in China, this study finds that students in different types of institutions and different major fields had a different level of engagement in entrepreneurship education. Further, the higher the level of entrepreneurship education the students received, the stronger their self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making was, and the stronger their entrepreneurial intention was. Student entrepreneurial decision-making self-efficacy played a mediating role between entrepreneurship education and student entrepreneurial intention. We found that entrepreneurship education has a positive effect on entrepreneurial intention. Entrepreneurship education course-taking has a positive effect on entrepreneurial decision-making. Furthermore, the positive effect of self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making on entrepreneurial intention was also confirmed. We also found that self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making played the significant role of mediator between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. The findings also showed a difference between the current China context and the western context that taking entrepreneurship-related classes had more considerable influences on student entrepreneurial intention than entrepreneurship-related practicum. We discuss the implications of the improvement of higher education in China and relevance to other contexts.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/10/9/257higher educationentrepreneurship educationentrepreneurial intentionself-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making |
| spellingShingle | Hong Mei Ching-Hung Lee Yuanyuan Xiang Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education Education Sciences higher education entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial intention self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making |
| title | Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education |
| title_full | Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education |
| title_fullStr | Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education |
| title_short | Entrepreneurship Education and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education |
| title_sort | entrepreneurship education and students entrepreneurial intention in higher education |
| topic | higher education entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial intention self-efficacy of entrepreneurial decision-making |
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