Entrepreneurship Education: A Students' Perspective

Mukta Mani
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Mukta Mani: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India

International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IJEEI), 2015, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Entrepreneurship education is believed to provide students with understanding of concepts of entrepreneurship, train and motivate them to indulge into entrepreneurial activities in future. This is an empirical study to explore the entrepreneurship education in engineering discipline from the perspective of students. The study also attempts to unearth the factors that motivate them to take entrepreneurial activities and their perceived hurdles. Data about the opinion of students regarding entrepreneurship education has been collected from 168 students. The data has been analyzed using various statistical tools. It is found that the students are highly interested in starting their own business. They consider that decision making skills, risk taking capacity, creativity, communication skills and ability to prepare business plan are the most important skills for a successful entrepreneur. They feel motivated to start their own business because of intrinsic factors like being their own boss, chasing their dreams. Lack of experience and lack of funds are the most deterring factors.

Date: 2015
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