La relación de la educación empresarial con la intención emprendedora en las instituciones de educación superior del centro del país

Abstract

The entrepreneurial intention has an important role in the economic development through incubation, technological innovation, the increasing of the economic efficiency along with the creation of new workplaces. This investment is directed since the perspective of the students‟ business intentions from the higher education in the Ecuador‟s centre. This study is based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The goals of the study were to prove whether TPB is able to explain the business intentions of the university students in the country‟s centre to determine whether students will have the intention to begin a business in an Ecuadorian context. The study was carried out with a validated instrument, with a study population of 740 pertaining to the total of enrolled in the subject of entrepreneurship of the faculties of „Ciencias Administrativas‟, at „Universidad Técnica de Ambato‟ (268), „Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo‟ (240) and „Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi‟ (240). A statistical program was used to tabulate the data and analyse them through a statistical test from Mann Whitney. To finish up, a model called Binominal Logistic Regression was used in order to determine the most powerful cognitive background in the intention of the entrepreneurship like input in this work research. The results show that the university student‟s entrepreneur intention can be predicted from the entrepreneur attitude, self-efficacy along with subjective norms. In a 56.3%, the students the intention to be entrepreneurs after finishing their five years of study besides it was found the same ones prefer first to get the enough tools throughout business education before starting a business.