Gratifications for Social Media Use in Entrepreneurship Courses: Learners’ Perspective

College students' perceptions of entrepreneurial environments exert significant influence on their entrepreneurial motivations. With China's increased focus on entrepreneurship and innovation, an increasing number of college students have embarked on a journey of self-employment and entrepreneurship. Due to disparities in the urban entrepreneurial environments, however, their entrepreneurial ventures in urban spaces are characterized by extreme phenomena such as entrepreneurial clusters and human capital flight, thus constraining economic development. This study sampled 244 college students from Wenzhou, China, and analyzed their opinions on the relationship between their perceptions of the entrepreneurial environment and associated motivations. We concluded that college students' entrepreneurial motivations are significantly and positively affected by their perception of socioeconomic conditions, education and training, and availability of financial and non-financial support, and insignificantly affected by their perceptions of the favorability of government policies as related to entrepreneurial development.

Section: Government Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Business Environment and Entrepreneurial Motivations of Urban Students

Mao

2020

“…Therefore, when conducting entrepreneurship education for college students, it is recommended that more courses about moral cognition and empathy be added and that well-designed training programs are implemented to foster their attention toward social needs. And teaching through social media is worth recommending, which can help students access more teaching resources about entrepreneurship (Wu and Song, 2019). Besides, a leader rotation system should be considered in campus activities to improve student's sense of responsibility (Jones et al, 2017).…”

Section: Practical Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dark Triad, Moral Disengagement, and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Moderating Roles of Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking

Huang

et al. 2020

Past research about social entrepreneurial intention has centered on the impact of bright personalities; however, dark personalities such as the dark triad are also considered to have advantages. This study explored the relationship between the dark triad and social entrepreneurial intention by focusing on the mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating role of empathic concern and perspective taking. Based on a sample of 491 undergraduates and 412 students in a master in business administration program in China, the dark triad was found to be negatively related to social entrepreneurial intention through moral disengagement. Moreover, high levels of empathic concern and perspective taking weakened the direct effect of the dark triad on moral disengagement, as well as the indirect effect of the dark triad on social entrepreneurial intention. Our study extends the research in the field of personality and entrepreneurship. Given the findings on the role of moral disengagement, empathic concern, and perspective taking, education efforts may assist in decreasing the negative effects of the dark triad on social entrepreneurial intention.

“…The concept of positive psychological quality of entrepreneurship, focusing on the college students, analyzes the problems existing in the innovation and entrepreneurship education based on the questionnaire survey and statistical methods. In addition, it integrates it with the internet and the maker education model in a preliminary manner, aiming to give effective suggestions for the implementation of the maker education model and the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities (Wu and Song, 2019;Yu et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploration and Practice of Maker Education Mode in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education

Yan

2020

This study was conducted with the purpose of exploring the impact of positive entrepreneurial psychological quality in innovation and entrepreneurship education, as well as the development of maker education in colleges and universities. The questionnaire survey method-The Positive Mental Characters Scale for Chinese College Students-and the SPSS 26.0 mathematical statistical analysis software were adopted to analyze and characterize the development of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, as well as the practice of maker education. The results show that there are differences in the factors that affect the positive entrepreneurial psychological quality of college students studying different majors in the liberal arts and sciences. Family economy has the most obvious impact on liberal arts students, sports activities have the most obvious impact on science students, has and grades have the most obvious impact on engineering students; the average score of college students' innovation and entrepreneurship ability is around 3.0, showing that the overall innovation and creativity ability is general. Furthermore, there are differences in the development of the maker education model between the eastern and western universities. Overall, the maker faculty of eastern universities are more complete, with a larger number of professors, associate seniors, and intermediate teachers. In addition, the investigation on the positive entrepreneurial psychological quality shows a positive effect on cultivating students' healthy entrepreneurial quality as well as promoting the development and practice of maker education.