개인특성과 환경요인이 창업교육을 매개로 대학생 창업의지에 미치는 영향

[Purpose]This study aims to investigate whether and how psychological and environmental factors affect entrepreneurship. The study specifically suggested three psychological elements(i.e., perceptional value of entrepreneurship, risk－taking propensity, and self－efficacy) and two environmental aspects (i.e., as social network and startups support policies) as explanatory variables and empirically examined the impact of these factors on college students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Furthermore, the study tested the mediating role of entrepreneurship education between the psychological and environmental factors and entrepreneurship intention. [Methodology]The data for this study were collected from the questionnaire distributed to the university students in metropolitan area and analyzed by correlation and three-step mediated regression analysis. [Findings]The empirical analysis indicates that perceptional value of entrepreneurship and self－efficacy turns out to have positive and significant impact on entrepreneurial intention while risk－taking propensity does not have significant impact. The analysis also shows that both social network and startup supporting policy, along with environmental factors, are positively and significantly associated with entrepreneurial intention. Lastly, as far as the mediating effect is concerned, perceptional value of entrepreneurship, self－efficacy, and social networks are turned out to be partially mediated by entrepreneurship education whereas startup supporting policy is fully mediated. [Implications]The research findings suggest that startup education and supporting policies in universities have potentials to promote students’ interests in establishing their own businesses as startups, and the entrepreneurship education at college level needs to be redesigned and customized in a way that can reflect the degree of students’ entrepreneurial intentions.