Does entrepreneurship education promote vocational students’ entrepreneurial mindset?

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Puji Handayati, Dwi Wulandari, Budi Eko Soetjipto, Agus Wibowo, Bagus Shandy Narmaditya

2020 Heliyon Vol. 6 Issue 11 Article Cited by 138 SDG 4SDG 8SDG 16 Quartile

Abstract

Education; Entrepreneurship education; Business; Entrepreneurial intention; Entrepreneurial mindset; Vocational students. © 2020 The Author(s); This paper aims to explore how entrepreneurship education determines students' entrepreneurial intentions as well as examine the emerging role of the entrepreneurial mindset in supporting this relationship. A quantitative method was applied to gain a better understanding of the relationship between variables utilizing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based variance Partial Least Square (PLS). The participants of this study were recruited from several vocational students in East Java of Indonesia by using an online survey. The findings indicate that entrepreneurship education positively influences both students' entrepreneurial intentions and an entrepreneurial mindset. It also reveals a robust correlation between entrepreneurship mindset and students' entrepreneurship intentions. Lastly, this study's finding shows that the entrepreneurship mindset has successfully mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial education and students' entrepreneurial intention. © 2020 The Author(s)

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Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia; Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia

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