Entrepreneurial Readiness: What Are The Roles Of Entrepreneurial Education, Environment And Student’s Mindset?

Achmad Sani Supriyanto,Pardiman Pardiman,M Khoirul Abs

doi:10.47577/tssj.v11i1.1483

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze students’ entrepreneurial readiness after taking Entrepreneurship course, which is a part of the educational curriculum, at their campuses. The data were obtained from questionnaires and processed in WarpPLS 5.0. The sample of this study is 323 students who have taken Entrepreneurial Education course. This study finds that Entrepreneurial Education will be more effective in affecting entrepreneurial readiness if the students’ mindset regarding entrepreneurship has been established. Furthermore, the mindset is affected by the entrepreneurship course and their environment. Therefore, this study suggests the necessity of shaping a more positive mindset towards entrepreneurship in students before they take entrepreneurship course.

Highlights

Entrepreneurship has been long believed by economists as one of the keys for communal economic growth
This study finds that entrepreneurial education, which is observed from teacher’s competence, learning material, and learning method used in the learning process, is not able to form entrepreneurial readiness, which is seen from the ownership of social capital, mental capital, and knowledge capital
Individuals with strong, positive, and relentless mindset, who do not quit on their skills and who are able to improve themselves from time to time are strong entrepreneurs

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Introduction

Entrepreneurship has been long believed by economists as one of the keys for communal economic growth. They always relate the economic growth of certain countries with the number of entrepreneurs in them. They believe that the more the number of entrepreneurs, the higher the welfare and the economic growth. The believe makes countries, including Indonesia, accelerate the growth of entrepreneurship. Several other experts who examined the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth are

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