Role of entrepreneurial education in shaping entrepreneurial intention among university students: Testing the hypotheses using mediation and moderation approach

Abstract

The present manuscript cognizes and empirically testifies the role of entrepreneurial education and opportunity recognition in determine entrepreneurial intention through the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The moderating role of entrepreneurial attitude has also been tested on the relationship between entrepreneurial education, opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurial intention. Data were collected from 663 students of three different universities in India using the convenience sampling technique. The results from the analysis revealed that entrepreneurial education, opportunity recognition not only influence entrepreneurial intention directly but also influence indirectly through the mediating effect of self-efficacy. Furthermore, results also unearthed that entrepreneurial attitude moderates the relationship between opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial education, and entrepreneurial intention.

Keywords:

• Entrepreneurial education
• entrepreneurial intention
• entrepreneurship
• opportunity recognition
• university students