Entrepreneurial Intensions of Business Students - A Benchmarking Study

By Nikolaus Franke, Christian Luthje. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM), 2004

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It is widely accepted that the educational system of universities has to provide an academic environment that may serve as a catalyst for high-technology start-ups. The academic tradition of entrepreneurship in India is very short. Until recently, fostering innovations and new product development through entrepreneurship has not been regarded as a primary task of universities. However, perspectives have changed in this respect, and there have been numerous attempts to enhance the role of B-school graduates as founders of innovative businesses. In this paper, an attempt has been made to compare the entrepreneurial intentions of students as two B-schools with the corresponding results for a leading instititution in this field: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I found very distinct patterns of entrepreneurial spirit in these B-Schools. The results also suggest that the lower level of founding intentions amond students may be attributed to their less distinctive entrepreneurship education. This leaves a great deal of room for improvement.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurial intentions of young women in the Arab world: socio-cultural and educational barriers (2017, methodology): “Survey development Based on models provided in the existing literature on entrepreneurial intentions (e.g. Lüthje and Franke, 2004; Shapero and Sokol, 1982) and considering the context of analysis (as in Kibler, 2012), a pool of 25 items that measure a number of possible antecedents for female…”
Exploring the intention–behavior link in student entrepreneurship: Moderating effects of individual and environmental characteristics (2016, methodology): “University entrepreneurial environment is measured subjectively (from a student perspective) using a 7-point Likert scale adopted from Franke and Lüthje (2004).”
The roles of learning orientation and passion for work in the formation of entrepreneurial intention (2013, methodology): “As such, it should be of particular interest to entrepreneurship educators because it offers an opportunity to intervene in, and facilitate the career decisions of, young adults (Franke and Lüthje, 2004).”
Demographic factors, family background and prior self-employment on entrepreneurial intention - Vietnamese business students are different: why? (2018, background): “Moreover, Franke and Lüthje (2004) found that students who assess the university environment as being insufficient or negative to encourage the entrepreneurship have significantly lower entrepreneurial intentions than those who have positive perceptions.”
Considering business start-up in recession time: The role of risk perception and economic context in shaping the entrepreneurial intent (2013, background): “…of risk perception and motivation, environmental factors can also clearly facilitate or hinder entrepreneurial activities because the individual makes an economic assessment of the expected costs and benefits of pursing the entrepreneurial career path (Franke & Luthje 2004; Luthje & Franke 2003).”
The Climate for Entrepreneurship at Higher Education Institutions (2018, methodology): “19 We measure students’ perceptions of the entrepreneurial climate in their university as follows: Because there is no accepted measure of such a climate, we developed own items based on previous research on entrepreneurial climate (Geissler, 2013; Lüthje and Franke, 2004).”
How University Entrepreneurship Support Affects College Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: An Empirical Analysis from China (2021, background): “In another empirical study, they found that the imperfect and immature entrepreneurship education and various university support conditions may dampen students’ optimism for entrepreneurship [61].”
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