Tertiary students’ entrepreneurial career intentions of entrepreneurship-embedded internship programs

This study examines 1630 tertiary students in regard to their entrepreneurial career intentions (ECIs) and their influencing factors. The findings may serve as academic reference for the development of entrepreneurship-related education. The results show that students’ computer self-efficacy (CSE) has a significant direct effect on ECIs, and entrepreneurship cognition (EC) has a significant effect on ECIs via CSE. The pattern and empirical data of EC and CSE on ECI have a good fit. This paper provides insights from Taiwan's tertiary institutions about the ECIs of students and contributes to a better understanding of them. We describe the development of the influencing factors, discuss the implications and provide suggestions for entrepreneurship education development.

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