Factors Contributing Towards Students Entrepreneurial Intentions
Abstract
There is no doubt agriculture sector is a backbone of the national economy and development as the family size is increasing the land holding size is decreasing subsequently and that gap can be filled with promotion of the entrepreneurial activates in the country. The most suitable segment of the society are the students who have to take the responsibilities for the family and national development. keeping in view these ideas in mind the study is planned to investigate the research objectives such as to study the university student’s socio-economic characteristics, to establish association between independent variable (socio-economic characteristics) with dependent variable (entrepreneurial spirit/intention) and to suggest policy measures for enhancing university students’ awareness about e-ship essentially required for business development. The cross sectional survey had been conducted in two well-known universities of Pak. UAF and GCUF to interview 300 students belonging to different disciplines. A well-structured questionnaire had be developed in the light of research objectives and research objectives. Influential statistics such as Chi-square and Gamma test were used to verify the hypotheses. Gender, entrepreneurial education, income, interest in business, geographical background, family occupation, confidence, knowledge of the students are the contributing factors of entrepreneurial spirits/intentions. It is suggested that there is a need to inculcate the real spirit of entrepreneurial activities and skills which can result in launching successful business activities. It was observed gender discrimination in the field of entrepreneurship. So, Govt. should provide interest free loan facility to the female entrepreneurial graduates to minimize gender discrimination. It has been seen that entrepreneurial skills are gender specific. So it is recommended that more attention and focus should be placed on women because women involvement in business activities are also important for family welfare and national development.
Key Words: Business, entrepreneurship, student, graduates.
