Unraveling Entrepreneurial Mindset: Exploring the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Education, Intention, and Behavior
摘要
Entrepreneurship has been considered a catalyst for economic development by prominent scholars and practitioners. The intention and behavior to pursue entrepreneurship serve as an antecedent to the creation of an enterprise. Our study aims to identify the effect of entrepreneurship education in the form of an entrepreneurship capacity-building program on the entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors of the international participants partaking in the program, with the mediating impact of the behavioral entrepreneurial mindset. Our paper hypothesized the relationship between entrepreneurship education (EE), behavioral entrepreneurial mindset (BEM), entrepreneurial intentions (EI), and entrepreneurial behavior (EB). SPSS software Regression analysis and Mediation Analysis were used to analyze and explain the relationship between variables of the study using survey data collected from 149 participants of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) program. According to the findings of the study, BEM considerably mediates the relationship between EE and EI. Furthermore, the study discovered a relationship between EI and EB. The statistics, however, show no significant direct relationship between BEM and EB. The findings add to the philosophical perspective of the entrepreneurial literature and practice of entrepreneurship capacity-building programs by highlighting the significance of BEM in the development of EI.