The 'making' of an entrepreneur: testing a model of entrepreneurial intent among engineering students at MIT

By Christian Lüthje, Nikolaus Franke. 2003

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In the present, study a covariance structure model is tested to identify the causes of entrepreneurial intent among engineering students. Specifically, we explore whether steady personal dispositions or whether perceptions of contextual founding conditions have an impact on the intention to found one's own business. The survey of 512 students at the MIT School of Engineering broadly confirms the model. Personality traits have a strong impact on the attitude towards self-employment. The entrepreneurial attitude is strongly linked with the intention to start a new venture. The students' personality, therefore, shows an indirect effect on intentions. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial intent is directly affected by perceived barriers and support factors in the entrepreneurship-related context. The findings have important implications for policy makers inside and outside universities.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Entrepreneurship Education at University Level and Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions (2014, background): “Studies have shown that entrepreneurship education programs contribute to the development of entrepreneurial intentions (Izquierdo & Buelens, 2008, Lüthje & Franke, 2003, Peterman and Kennedy, 2003, Kolvereid & Moens, 1997, Souitaris et al., 2007, Fayolle et al., 2006).”
Considering business start-up in recession time: The role of risk perception and economic context in shaping the entrepreneurial intent (2013, methodology): “…development, for example, contextual barriers and support factors in the environment, capital availability, aggregate economic indicators like socio-economic conditions and unemployment (Franke & Luthje 2004; Gnyawali & Fogel 1994; Luthje & Franke 2003; Mazzarol, Volery, Doss, & Thein 1999).”
Individual Entrepreneurial Intent: Construct Clarification and Development of an Internationally Reliable Metric (2009, methodology): “…1995; Francis & Banning, 2001; Frank & Lüthje, 2004; Hmieleski & Corbett, 2006; Kennedy, Drennan, Renfrow, & Watson, 2003; Krueger et al.; Lüthje & Franke, 2003; Vesalainen & Pihkala, 1999), and is likely to remain an important construct in research relating to enterprising individuals,…”
Entrepreneurial intentions of Colombian business students: planned behaviour, leadership skills and social capital (2017, background): “Conclusions may be different for science/engineering students or for humanities majors, where barriers and support factors may be different (Luthje and Franke, 2003).”
The Effect Of Entrepreneurship Education On Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions (2010, background): “Education either about or for entrepreneurship (Laukannen, 2000; Luthje and Franke (2003) helps in new business creation, development of entrepreneurial process and issues that have to do with theories and management of entrepreneurial ventures.”
Institutional support and women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2017, background): “Researchers have asserted that institutional barriers, such as state rules and regulations that are unfavorable to the creation of new ventures, negatively affect entrepreneurial cognitions (Lüthje and Franke, 2003).”
The ‘Teachability Dilemma’ of entrepreneurship (2011, background): “Actually, personality traits seem to have an influence on career reasons and the attitude towards self-employment (Carter et al. 2003; Lüthje and Franke 2003), new venture performance (Herron and Robinson 1993) as well as survival and growth (Thompson 2004).”
University training for entrepreneurial competencies: Its impact on intention of venture creation (2011, neutral): “It has also been found that risk taking is positively associated with intentions of self-employment through its influence on certain predictors of the latter, such as self-efficacy (Zhao et al. 2005) and a positive attitude towards entrepreneurial behaviour ( Luthje and Franke 2003 ).”
Personality traits and theory of planned behavior comparison of entrepreneurial intentions between an emerging economy and a developing country (2019, methodology): “Lüthje and Franke (2003) considered the effect of LoC on ATE, as ATE is the most influential factor in becoming self-employed; others have considered its role as the antecedent of TPB’s dimensions (Peng et al., 2012; Rosique-Blasco et al., 2018).”
The Relationship between Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Meta–Analytic Review (2014, background): “Second, we identified two social dimensions that may shape a student’s views of entrepreneurship (Lüthje & Franke, 2003).”
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM BULGARIA (2010, background): “entrepreneurial intentions among students (Schwarz et al., 2005; Lüthje and Franke, 2003).”
Gender stereotyping effects on entrepreneurial self‐efficacy and high‐growth entrepreneurial intention (2013, background): “For example, Luthje and Franke (2003) defined entrepreneurial intention as the readiness to start a business, with risk-taking propensity, locus of control and attitudes toward self-employment as predictors.”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intention: Hysteresis and Persistence (2015, background): “What role can entrepreneurship education play, compared with other influencing factors (personal or environmental) that affect entrepreneurial behavior (Lüthje and Franke 2003)? Do the factors that influence entrepreneurial intention and/or behavior (Begley et al.”