ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT AND FAMILY SOCIAL CAPITAL AS DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION

Abstract

ABSTRACT The knowledge, skills, competencies and skills required for entrepreneurship are tools that can be provided through entrepreneurial education. In this research, entrepreneurial intention in university students has been little explored, even though it is viewed as an important potential in business activity. The objective of this study is to identify and analyze whether entrepreneurial education, the university environment and family social capital are determinants of entrepreneurial intention. A study was carried out with a quantitative approach and a cross-sectional design, using the multivariate analysis of linear regression and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) of one factor. A random survey was applied to 384 university students from the southwest of the state of Guanajuato, through google forms. Only 318 surveys were validated, of which 49.4% are of a Higher Technical University level, 33.6% of a bachelor's degree and 17% of engineering. The findings show that entrepreneurial education helps in the development of the initiative in (4.28), the university environment identifies business opportunities (4.19) and the family union promotes entrepreneurship (4.59). In this same sense, six out of 10 students intend to start their own company when they finish their studies. Therefore, a higher positive correlation is observed between the university environment and entrepreneurial education (0.673). The results allow us to affirm that, in the case of men, the university environment has a greater significant influence on their intention to undertake, and for women, entrepreneurial education has a significant impact on their intention to undertake. Finally, family social capital is more favored in the case of men than women. The study has important implications for higher education institutions in terms of analysis, design, and management of entrepreneurial intent. Keywords: entrepreneurial intention, entrepreneurial education, university environment, family social capital.