Abstract

AbstractIndia’s post-liberalization phase is experiencing rapid economic activity growth. The information revolution and numerous government and social efforts have paved the way for the country’s entrepreneurial education. Since the inception of state of Uttarakhand (India), it has focused on developing entrepreneurial skills and attempting to build entrepreneurial intention among the students taking entrepreneurial courses. However, the effect of entrepreneurial education in developing entrepreneurial personality traits needs to be studied and how these educational programs could create entrepreneurial intention among students. Present work explores the effect of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention and whether an entrepreneurial personality trait mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention. To achieve objective of this study 217 students doing professional and non-professional courses at different institutes of Dehradun district, the state capital of Uttarakhand (India) was chosen. The result of the study indicates positive relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention and confirm mediating role of entrepreneurial personality traits in building relationship between entrepreneurial education and students’ entrepreneurial intention.KeywordsEntrepreneurial traitsEntrepreneurial educationEntrepreneurial intention

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