EXPLAINING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF （解释创业的意图）.pdf

EXPLAINING ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION Rita Remeikiene Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania rita.remeikiene@ktu.lt Grazina Startiene Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania grazina.startiene@ktu.lt Daiva Dumciuviene Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania daiva.dumciuviene@ktu.lt Abstract: The article is aimed at the establishment of the impact of entrepreneurial education promoting entrepreneurship among young people. The results of the research confirmed that the main factors of entrepreneurial intention are personality traits (self-efficacy, risk-taking, need for achievement, proactiveness, attitude towards entrepreneurship, behavioural control and internal locus of control), and they can be developed during the study process. With reference to the research results, it was established that in spite of the chosen study program, young people studying in the higher education institution (Kaunas University of Technology) are inclined to seek for entrepreneurship after completion of the studies – it was stated by 77 per cent of the students of economics and 70 per cent of the students of mechanical engineering. It also appeared that the chose study program differently impacts students’ intentions to seek for entrepreneurship. The students of economics are of the opinion that economic edu