Driving an Entrepreneurial Mindset and Intentions Through Entrepreneurial Education in Thailand with the Mediation of Entrepreneurial Inspiration

Abstract

This research was intended to examine the influence of “EE” (Entrepreneurial Education) on learners’ “EM” (Entrepreneurial Mindsets) in higher-education in Thailand. Utilizing a mediating model, the present study focuses “Entrepreneurial Mindset” as a new effect of entrepreneurial learning or education and states the lack of study on the association among entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial mindsets. Relied on 267 respondents from various campuses in Thailand, this paper demonstrated that the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial mindsets is significant. Entrepreneurial education considerably enriched the entrepreneurial inspiration of students, which in-turn, supported the creation of learners’ entrepreneurial mindset. At a significant level, entrepreneurial inspiration as well as mediated the effect of entrepreneurship education on EM. The involvement and intention of students’ in EE create a significant effect on their EM which favors the role of learning experience in the EE and EE connection. This paper results also contribute to theories of EE and EM and mainly to the comprehension of not just either, though as well as how EE impacts EM in the settings of higher educational institutions. The consequences of the current paper can support to notify the forthcoming assessment and design of the programs of EE.