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An Empirical Study on the Antecedents of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship
Posted on 27 December 2016 by Azlinda Abd Rahim (Library Manager)
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


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