Fostering Sustainable Entrepreneurs: Evidence from China College Students’ “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (CSIPC)

Yan, Xin; Gu, Dongxiao; Liang, Changhao; Zhao, Shuping; Lu, Wenxing

doi:10.3390/su10093335

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“…The growing interest in the study of entrepreneurial intention is related to several factors. In the first place, the intention has a high correlation with the behavior of creating a company; this correlation being in some cases higher than 0.90 and 0.96 [6,60]. Moreover, the intention allows us to explain a high percentage of the variance of the behavior of entrepreneurship, and it is the variable that most accurately predicts entrepreneurial behavior [61].…”

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“…At the individual level, the creation of companies has contributed enormously to satisfying the need for achievement of individuals who possess creative competencies and a propensity to risk [4,5]. However, on many occasions and for many reasons, the intentions of some entrepreneurs do not materialize in real projects, and the journey of entrepreneurship does not come to fruition [6,7]. For these reasons, researchers in this field make efforts to identify and strengthen the factors on which the venture depends [8,9].…”

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Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intention among Young People: Model and Regional Evidence

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Entrepreneurial intentions determine to a large extent the entrepreneurial behavior; therefore, the study of those intentions and the factors that influence them constitute a valid research area. The purpose of this regional comparative study was to design a new causal model of the formation of the entrepreneurial intention among young adults in Spain and Poland. Using the Structural Equation Modeling (PLS) methodology, the results show that subjective variables (beliefs, social norms, values) initiate the chain of effects that influence the action variables (motivation, self-efficacy, intention). Attitude is the nexus variable between both groups of variables. It is verified that there are no significant differences in the responses to the items or in the causal relationships of the model between both countries. This confirms the relevance of a homogenizing generational approach at a global level that allows the application of policies to promote the entrepreneurial intention for the entire segment. The proposed model takes into account and complements the previous designs, and is practical because it can be used at different levels of the education sector and by institutions promoting entrepreneurship and sustainability.

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Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intention among Young People: Model and Regional Evidence

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“…On the other side, the term "green growth describes an economic growth strategy based on the ecological restructuring of existing economic processes, creating jobs and income generation opportunities in new 'green' sectors of the economy, and minimizing environmental impacts" [32]. In addition, sustainable entrepreneurship plays an important role in solving the employment problems and promoting sustainable social and economic development in an environmental context [33].…”

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Fostering Green Entrepreneurship and Women’s Empowerment through Education and Banks’ Investments in Tourism: Evidence from Serbia

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2019

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The aim of our research is to consider the potential for women’s empowerment through tourism and women’s equality inherent in the green economy. In addition, our research should shed more light on the women’s dimensions of green growth, especially in the context of development of entrepreneurship in tourism. In line with this, our approach in the study combines a women’s perspective with green growth and entrepreneurship development in the tourism sector in Serbia. The research was carried out in the most important tourist centers in the country, such as Novi Sad, Nis, Zlatibor, Vrnjačka Banja, and Sokobanja. This study showed that insufficient attention has been dedicated to this industry from the perspective of its benefits for women. In addition, the research indicated that, in the field of tourism, women mostly prefer special programs of education that are adjusted to the job requirements that they have already been performing or to a similar job that they are just about to start. It is necessary to involve them more often in various projects that encourage their further empowerment. The research also discovered gaps in the supply of finance between the needs of green entrepreneurs in tourism and what the financial system is willing to provide to them. Firstly, there is a lack of appropriate lending products offered by the commercial banking sector. In particular, a combination of financial support and suitable financial tools to encourage women’s initiatives for start-ups in tourism is missing.

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“…Personal preferences play an important role in the process of choosing a future career, and in the development of entrepreneurship. Authors Yan, Gu, Zhao, Liang and Lu [36] state in their study that "their data analysis show that personality traits had a significantly effect on sustainable entrepreneurial intention of college students, and entrepreneurial alertness and opportunity recognition played a mediating role between personality traits and sustainable entrepreneurial intention of college students" (p. 1). A recent Swedish study shows that career preferences of young individuals are influenced mostly by their parents as role models, but they find in their research that except from the influence of role models there is a strong influence of regional inheritance on young people and their aspirations to start their own business [37].…”

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Family Entrepreneurship and Personal Career Preferences as the Factors of Differences in the Development of Entrepreneurial Potential of Students

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The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in family entrepreneurship background and personal attitudes of students regarding their future career preferences and its effects on the development of specific dimensions of entrepreneurship potential of a student population. The sample consisted of a student population from Serbia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina as EU candidate countries and Belgium as an EU member country. A sample of 1008 university students from these three countries participated in this research. Instruments used in this research were the Questionnaire of Entrepreneurial Traits (QET) and the Scale of Entrepreneurial Potential (SEP). Canonical discriminant analysis confirmed significant differences in scores on both QET and SEP scales of entrepreneurial potential between students that have family entrepreneurship background and those who do not. Differences were also shown among students who strive for self-employment, and consider establishing their own business, and students who would like to find employment in the state or private sector. Young people whose family members are engaged in entrepreneurship are influenced by their parents who started companies, parents’ personal characteristics, and parent’s model of behavior, which significantly shapes the behavior and characteristics of these young people, compared to those young people whose parents do not start companies. Young people who prefer to build a career within their own enterprise have basic characteristics that predispose them for engagement in entrepreneurship within their own company, whereby this provides them with the only way they can achieve the full capacity of their individual potential. Both these groups display a more developed initiative, independence in decision making, they are more open minded and prone to take on risks, have more developed organizational skills, and more positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Results of this study can help identify and foster factors that significantly develop specific characteristics of entrepreneurship potential of student populations, such as family entrepreneurship background and career preferences.

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Fostering Sustainable Entrepreneurs: Evidence from China College Students’ “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (CSIPC)

Cited by 79 publications

References 41 publications

Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intention among Young People: Model and Regional Evidence

Antecedents of Entrepreneurial Intention among Young People: Model and Regional Evidence

Fostering Green Entrepreneurship and Women’s Empowerment through Education and Banks’ Investments in Tourism: Evidence from Serbia

Family Entrepreneurship and Personal Career Preferences as the Factors of Differences in the Development of Entrepreneurial Potential of Students

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