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Technopreneurial Intentions: The Effect of Innate Innovativeness and Academic Self-Efficacy

Sa’Ed M. Salhieh and Yousef Al-Abdallat
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Sa’Ed M. Salhieh: Faculty of Engineering & IT, British University in Dubai, Dubai 345015, United Arab Emirates
Yousef Al-Abdallat: Industrial Engineering Department, School of Engineering, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-14

Abstract: Several factors can affect students’ intention to start a new technology-based venture (technopreneurial intentions). Understanding these factors is important when developing technical educational programs. This study investigates the effect of innate innovativeness and academic self-efficacy on technopreneurial self-efficacy and the forming of technopreneurial intentions. It does this by developing a conceptual model that relates technopreneurial intentions, technopreneurial self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy, and innate innovativeness. The data was collected from 378 undergraduate engineering students enrolled in a Jordanian university with a self-administered questionnaire survey. The results of the structural equation modeling (SEM) using AMOS showed that technopreneurial self-efficacy had a positive and significant impact on technopreneurial intentions. Academic self-efficacy had both a direct and indirect positive effect on technopreneurial intention. The indirect effect occurred through increased technopreneurial self-efficacy. Innate innovativeness had a direct effect on technopreneurial intentions, but it did not have a significant indirect effect through technopreneurship self-efficacy as was initially hypothesized. The findings suggest that those who show interest in starting a new technology-based venture have a strong belief in their abilities to perform the technological and entrepreneurial tasks needed, are confident about their ability to acquire the academic technical skills required, and have the inner motivation to seek what is technologically new and different.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; technopreneurial intentions; technopreneurial self-efficacy; academic self-efficacy; innate innovativeness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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