Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intention of Business Graduates: Does Artificial Intelligence Matter?

Abstract

AbstractThe main goal of this research is to investigate the mediating role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the relationship between Entrepreneurship Education (EE) and Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) among business graduates. A well-structured questionnaire in “Google Form” was created and distributed to respondents via various social media sites, including WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Messenger, etc. A snowball sampling technique was used to distribute the questionnaire to the respondents for data collection in this study. However, the sample size was set at 401 business graduates from different universities in Bangladesh. The analysis was carried out using SPSS and AMOS software. The findings revealed that entrepreneurship education has a significant positive impact on entrepreneurial intention. Besides, artificial intelligence has substantial positive impacts on entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, artificial intelligence partially mediates the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. This study incorporates artificial intelligence into entrepreneurial education for the purpose of establishing an entrepreneurial mindset among business graduates. Only business students from Bangladeshi universities took part in the study, thus, it is recommended that future studies include students from other disciplines or fields such as Computer Science and Engineering, information technology (IT), English, Law, and Engineering to make the findings more acceptable. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the leading studies relating to artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh.KeywordsArtificial intelligenceBusiness graduatesEntrepreneurship educationEntrepreneurial intention