Student Entrepreneurial Propensities in the Individual-Organisational-Environmental Nexus

Don Webber, F Kitagawa and A Plumridge

Economic Issues Journal Articles, 2020, vol. 25, issue 1, 31-59

Abstract: While there is a consensus that universities contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation, it is not clear how different educational environments contribute to different students’ desires to start up a business, and it is even less clear how different universities contribute to entrepreneurship activities in a particular place. This study improves understanding of entrepreneurship education and the university-based entrepreneurship ecosystem at the individual, organisational and environmental levels by examining organisational contexts and individual students’ social contexts, including motivations towards and perceptions of graduate start-ups. Applications of logit and ordered logit regression analyses to a unique student-level dataset across two universities in one city-region demonstrates the importance of the university, gender and a series of home and employment experiences as determinants of the propensity to start up a business, while economic factors change attitudes towards setting up a business.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship education; Business start-up; Entrepreneurial propensity; Student motivations; Local institutional contexts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 L26 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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