Entrepreneurial potential of portuguese agriculture Higher Education students: a case from the Alto tràs-os-montes region, Portugal

Ribeiro Maria Isabel Barreiro, Fernandes António José Gonçalves and Francisco Diniz ()
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Ribeiro Maria Isabel Barreiro: Braganca Polytechnic Institute
Fernandes António José Gonçalves: Braganca Polytechnic Institute

Экономика региона, 2014, issue 2, 212-219

Abstract: Ascertaining students’ entrepreneurial intention and looking into their perception of the obstacles surrounding the entrepreneurial process are the objectives of this research. To achieve these objectives, a cross-sectional, quantitative, observational and analytical study was developed. To carry out this study, a random sample constituted by 269 students from Braganza School of Agriculture was collected. Descriptive statistics and statistical tests, namely, Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov with Lilliefors correction test and Levene test were computed using SPSS 16.0. A likely bankruptcy was identified as a critical factor in starting up a business. Lack of financial support was pointed as the major difficulty concerning business development. However, according to the results, 35.2 % of the respondents would like to create their own business and contribute to the development of the regional economy, specifically, in the agriculture, food, biotechnological and environmental sectors.

Date: 2014
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