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An Empirical Study on the Antecedents of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship

Gustavo Morales-Alonso (), Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi () and Ana M. Vargas-Perez
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Gustavo Morales-Alonso: Departamento de Ingeniería de Organización, Administración de Empresas y Estadística, ETSI Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi: Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación (ICE), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/Profesor Aranguren 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Ana M. Vargas-Perez: Departamento de Ingeniería de Organización, Administración de Empresas y Estadística, ETSI Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2016, vol. 13, issue 05, 1-15

Abstract: This study sheds light on the importance of the exposure to entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial role models regarding the entrepreneurial intention of engineering students, as they are the potential founders of new knowledge intensive start-ups. With this purpose, a questionnaire surveying a sample of 851 engineering students from a technical university in Spain is developed. The results point out that parents who own a business foster entrepreneurial intention and related attitudes in their sons/daughters. To the contrary, civil servants are identified as a negative role model, hindering both attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial intention; technology-based start-ups; parental role models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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