World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET)
Doi
Abstract
IFRN – Mossoró is a Brazilian technical education
institute that develops several activities to encourage
entrepreneurship, such as a curricular discipline about enterprise
management and the existence of a business incubator. Despite
efforts, the business incubator does not produce the expected effects.
Therefore, what predisposes students to start their own business? If
literature review explores determinant factors like the family and
personal characteristics, it can be sustained that entrepreneurship
skills can be taught since primary level, until university level. This
paper presents the results of research project “Empreende IFRN” to
understand the entrepreneurial predisposition and intention of the
students from technical level courses. Data from 365 students from
technical level courses reveal an increased entrepreneurial intention
of students during time (from a 2 years period to someday in the
future). The entrepreneurial behavior of parents affects students’
perception about starting their own business. Students also present a
cautions behavior, preferring bank deposit and investment fund
instead starting a business