Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the entrepreneurial intentions of university students at two major universities in Yemen. The entrepreneurial intentions of students were determined using demographic, personality, environmental and situational variables. The primary data were collected through a questionnaire survey method. A total of 487 students have been included from different programs such as economics, commerce, sciences, computer and IT, medical sciences, agriculture, engineering, art and law. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, principal component factor analysis, t-test, analysis of variance, correlation and regression analysis were employed. The results indicate that individual perceptions of need for achievement, self-efficacy, locus of control and situational variable have a significant impact on entrepreneurial intention, but not instrumental readiness. Age and entrepreneurial experience have a significant impact, but not gender and university. The study recommends that students should develop their entrepreneurial capacity by following informal and formal training of different entrepreneurial skills needed to run a business. Government and universities should organize entrepreneurship training courses and establishing entrepreneurship centers, incubators and support entrepreneurial start-ups activity. Key words: University students, entrepreneurial intention, Yemen.
Highlights
Across the globe, entrepreneurship has been recognized as a viable determinant for progress and economic growth
Six factors were arising with the Eigenvalues above 1.0, these six factors altogether explained a total of 66.617% of the variance
The results showed no significant differences in entrepreneurial intentions among students from public and private sector universities
Summary
Entrepreneurship has been recognized as a viable determinant for progress and economic growth. Extensive studies have been conducted on entrepreneurship and economic growth within strong and stable environments (Giacomin et al, 2011; Kwong and Thompson, 2016). Conflict and crises are considered one of the most critical challenges facing entrepreneurship in the world today. These challenges vary in each country or case, in those different contexts, they have their special issues. To study this issue, many previous studies have depended on qualitative methods with small and non-random samples in some cases, whereas some others depended on the published households‟ surveys
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