What drives university engineering students to become entrepreneurs? Finding different recipes using a configuration approach

Pierluigi Rippa, Gabriella Ferruzzi, Marian Holienka, Guido Capaldo and Alicia Coduras

Journal of Small Business Management, 2023, vol. 61, issue 2, 353-383

Abstract: This research aims to investigate how combinations of factors lead to the entrepreneurial intention and propensity of engineering university students. The study proposes the application of a configuration approach (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) with a sample of 10,008 engineering students from 43 universities in 10 European countries. The findings show that entrepreneurial intention and propensity do not depend only on a single driver but on the interplay of multiple factors. The intensity of entrepreneurship education is a necessary but not sufficient condition. Different recipes brought to light in the analysis belong to similar socioeconomic contexts.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2020.1790291

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