Abstract
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions of the Romanian engineering students and their main determinants in order to identify some ways through which the entrepreneurial behaviour of potential entrepreneurs can be stimulated. The direct effect of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial family background and entrepreneurial personality traits on students’ entrepreneurial intentions was analysed in a sample of 138 engineering students, in the last year of study, bachelor’s degree, from Petru Maior University of Tirgu Mures, Romania. The hierarchical multiple regression analysis results highlight that students’ entrepreneurial family background and entrepreneurial personality traits positively influence the entrepreneurial intentions of future engineers. Moreover, results show that students’ participation in entrepreneurship education does not influence significantly their entrepreneurial intentions fact which highlights the need to improve effectiveness of the entrepreneurship education in the university curriculum in order to stimulate high-growth technology ventures of future engineers.
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