Impacto dos programas de Educação para o Empreendedorismo no aumento da intenção empreendedora

Abstract

Despite several publications over the last years about Entrepreneurship, there is a lack of evidences showing that Entrepreneurial Education (EE) could influence the predisposition to start-up, or at least increase the entrepreneurial intentions (EI). This paper aims to study the main effects of a typical Entrepreneurship Education (EE) program - specially design for Technology-Based Firms of center region of Portugal and Castilla y León in Spain, on EI. The results find in the empirical study that the program have raised the EI of the participants and has proved to be very effective to perceive the risks to venture creation and how to evaluate business ideas. Additionally, enable to instill entrepreneurial mindsets, to gain skills to firm creation and the students empowered their networking and learned to make business plans.