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The decision to become an entrepreneur involves an elaborate mental process. Understand this
process during the formation of possible entrepreneurs that means during its educational process is
important since entrepreneurship is actually a possible career for an increase number of students.
The present study tries to understand the mental process related to students become an entrepreneur
following the cognitive approach through the application of Entrepreneurial Intentions
Questionnaire (EIQ) to students from College of Business and Administration (ESCE), Polytechnic
Institute of Setubal (IPS) and students from Economics and Management College (FEA),
University of São Paulo (USP). Consequently the aim of the study is to understand the student’s
entrepreneurial intention, considering the influence of social and skills perceptions in determining
entrepreneurial intentions.
This study allowed the confirmation of the findings of previous studies concerning the relationship
between the entrepreneurial intention and the attitudes towards entrepreneurship and perceived
behavioural control.
Description
Comunicação apresentada nas XXVI Jornadas Luso Espanholas de Gestão Científica, 3-6 de fevereiro de 2016, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship education entrepreneurial intention theory of planned behavior