THE EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN TURKEY

Year 2015, Issue: 23, 79 - 93, 20.01.2016

Ebru Doğan

Abstract

The number of entrepreneurs has been increasing with each passing day in the contemporary business world where new opportunities have been emerging. As entrepreneurship, which is quite important for economic and social development, has become more widespread and more active. Many studies have covered the topic of determining the factors affecting individuals’ entrepreneurial intentions and the relation between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions.

 

This study examined the factors affecting the entrepreneurial intentions of the final year undergraduate students of business administration at a selected Turkish university and the relation between the success levels of the students in the entrepreneurship class and their entrepreneurial intentions. The study found a significant positive correlation between the students’ success levels in the entrepreneurship class and their entrepreneurial intentions. Besides, it was found that the students with a self-employed father have higher entrepreneurial intentions in comparison with those whose fathers are not self-employed.