Does entrepreneurship education promote vocational students’ entrepreneurial mindset?

• Main Authors: Puji Handayati, Dwi Wulandari, Budi Eko Soetjipto, Agus Wibowo, Bagus Shandy Narmaditya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
• Series: Heliyon
• Subjects: Education; Entrepreneurship education; Business; Entrepreneurial intention; Entrepreneurial mindset; Vocational students
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020322696

This paper aims to explore how entrepreneurship education determines students' entrepreneurial intentions as well as examine the emerging role of the entrepreneurial mindset in supporting this relationship. A quantitative method was applied to gain a better understanding of the relationship between variables utilizing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based variance Partial Least Square (PLS). The participants of this study were recruited from several vocational students in East Java of Indonesia by using an online survey. The findings indicate that entrepreneurship education positively influences both students' entrepreneurial intentions and an entrepreneurial mindset. It also reveals a robust correlation between entrepreneurship mindset and students' entrepreneurship intentions. Lastly, this study's finding shows that the entrepreneurship mindset has successfully mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial education and students' entrepreneurial intention.