Intenção Empreendedora Entre Universitários: Uma  Análise para Portugal

Abraham Peres Mattos Fernandes

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Authors:

Abraham Peres Mattos Fernandes (Abraham Peres Mattos Fernandes)

Supervisors:

António Miguel Areias Dias Amaral (António Miguel Areias Dias Amaral)

Published in

September 20, 2021

Abstract

The importance of entrepreneurship goes far beyond creating a product or delivering a particular type of service. Its purpose is also directly linked to the impact of the socio-economic development of nations, as an important agent of socio-economic transformation. Because of this, this subject has been gaining relevance in the academic environment, in order to better understand and develop entrepreneurship among the youngest layers of the population and, particularly, in the case of university students. In this context, studies and discussions about entrepreneurial intention (IE) have been gaining relevance in several scientific business areas and in various educational axes, with the growing aim of, on the one hand, understanding the behavior and intentions of university students towards entrepreneurship, This dissertation aims to review the literature on EI and seeks to carry out the empirical validation of the main inherent issues, making use of a statistical analysis of regressions using quantitative data from the GUESSS Questionnaire, focusing on Portugal. The study was conclusive in what it set out to analyze. Thus, it was found the importance of entrepreneurial education as an influence for an EI, as well as the greater predisposition to entrepreneurship among a specific group of students. This material serves as an important tool for fostering the debate on entrepreneurial intention in the university context, and for improving the exploration of the theme in the particular setting of each course.