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Assessment of Entrepreneurial Education as a Strategy for Developing Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst University Students in North-East Nigeria

Ibrahim Aliyu

Subject area: Management and Commerce  ·  Area of research: Strategic Management

Abstract

This study is designed to investigate the mediating effect of entrepreneurial mindset development on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention amongst university students in North-East Nigeria. A cross-sectional research design was adopted to collect data from a sample of 546 final year students of the universities that have already offered the course. The data was collected using a survey questionnaire and analyzed using Multiple Regression on SPSS version 23 and Covariance Based Structural Equation Modeling (CB-SEM) on SPSS AMOS 26. The result entrepreneurial mindset development mediates the relationship between all four components entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention. It therefore recommended that policy makers should redesign their entrepreneurship education to first of all target at developing entrepreneurial mindset in the participants before entrepreneurial intention.

Keywords

Entrepreneurial Education, Entrepreneurial Network Entrepreneurial Mindset development and Entrepreneurial Intention

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Ibrahim Aliyu "Assessment of Entrepreneurial Education as a Strategy for Developing Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst University Students in North-East Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 7 Issue 8 2024 Page 246-261
Ibrahim Aliyu "Assessment of Entrepreneurial Education as a Strategy for Developing Entrepreneurial Intention Amongst University Students in North-East Nigeria" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, vol. 7, no. 8, Feb. 2024
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