Assessing the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneur

This essay is an assignment for Human Capital and Innovation course at FSU Jena. The complete paper can be seen here.

This research would like to assess the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) and entrepreneurial intentions (EI) in the context of Indonesia. The research will take advantage of a newly established Entrepreneurship program study at School of Business and Management, Institute of Technology Bandung (SBM-ITB). The longitudinal data from a survey would be collected from the students in Entrepreneurship program at the beginning and at the end of their study. SBM-ITB also has a long established Management program study which offers some entrepreneurship courses/programs in several semesters. As a comparison, the same survey would be applied to the students in Management program at the same cohort. Study to these different types of entrepreneurship education (Entrepreneurship vs Management program study) seems to give different result in terms of the impact on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intentions of students.

The result is expected to be two fold. First is to understand the impact of entrepreneurship education on students’ ESE and EI; second is to have a comparison with the ‘sister’ program of Management and see whether the entrepreneurship education in Entrepreneurship program study do make a significant difference in terms of the impact on students’ ESE and IE. The results are expected to provide a valuable contribution to entrepreneurship literature in terms of the comparison of the impact of two different schemes of entrepreneurship education to students’ ESE and EI and also for improvement in the entrepreneurship education not only in SBM-ITB but also in general.