Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1019849 | Journal of Business Venturing | 2007 | 26 Pages |
Abstract
Drawing on the theory of planned behaviour, this study tests the effect of entrepreneurship programmes on the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of science and engineering students. This is necessary in order to confirm (or disconfirm) conventional wisdom that entrepreneurship education increases the intention to start a business. The results show that the programmes raise some attitudes and the overall entrepreneurial intention and that inspiration (a construct with an emotional element) is the programmes' most influential benefit. The findings contribute to the theories of planned behaviour and education and have wider implications for a theory of entrepreneurial emotions and also for the practice of teaching entrepreneurship.
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Authors
Vangelis Souitaris, Stefania Zerbinati, Andreas Al-Laham,