Profiling the factors affecting the entrepreneurial intention of the egyptian universities students

Abstract

Students intentions toward being an entrepreneur is considered as a good way for economic growth; this can be done by creating new businesses and new jobs which in turn will solve one major problem in Egypt, which is the unemployment problem. Therefore, it is important to make sure that university students are qualified and have the required and needed skills, characteristics and competencies. These qualifications make them being able to start and manage their own businesses in the future as different studies show the role of entrepreneurship education on increasing the entrepreneurial intention among university students. According to the Egyptian context, the paper aims to provide different propositions about the effect of entrepreneurship education on increasing the intentions of Egyptian universities students, the main psychological characteristics that an entrepreneur must possess, and testing the appropriateness of the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen 1991) in explaining the intention. The paper relies on exploratory methodology to reach testable research propositions through review of relevant literature, analysis of secondary data and qualitative research conducted with concerned parties