Influence of entrepreneurial education and venture intentions on venture creations
- This research was conducted to determine the relationship between entrepreneurship educations, venture intention on venture creation among entrepreneurial graduate in Kenya focusing on selected universities in Kenya. The study was grounded on the economic entrepreneurship theory, an attitude-based view on entrepreneurship education and resource-based theory. This research embraced a cross-sectional descriptive survey design. Study population was 2500 student taking entrepreneurship course in various universities of whom a sample of 345 students was chosen using purposive and simple random sampling technique. The study used both primary and secondary data. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Version 21) was used to analyse quantitative date. The findings of the study revealed that entrepreneurial education had a noteworthy influence on venture creation (r= 0. 512, p = .001<0.05, t= 10.904) increase in entrepreneurial education would lead to significant increase in venture creation. The study revealed that entrepreneurial training has significance influence in venture creation among graduate as indicated by β1=-0.670, p=0.002<0.05, t= 10.304. Study established that increase in entrepreneurial orientation would lead to increase in venture creation among graduates by a factor of 0.519 with P value of 0.002 (r =0.519, P=0.03< 0.05). The research conclusion was that entrepreneurial knowledge acquisition, entrepreneurial training and entrepreneurial orientation combined have important and positive relationship with venture creation among the graduates.
Document Type: | Conference Object |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Joshua Otieno Nyangidi, Bitange Ndemo, Vincent Machuki |
Parent Title (English): | Bode, Freitag (Eds.): Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa - Conference Proceedings 2018. Sankt Augustin, Germany, 13-14 September 2018 |
First Page: | 37 |
Last Page: | 60 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96043-071-1 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-44176 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18418/978-3-96043-071-1_37 |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2019/03/27 |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 65 Management, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit / 650 Management und unterstützende Tätigkeiten |
Conference volumes: | Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa / Universities, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa, Sankt Augustin, Germany, 13-14 September 2018 |
Entry in this database: | 2019/03/27 |
Licence (Multiple languages): | In Copyright (Urheberrechtsschutz) |