Last modified: 2019-09-28
Abstract
This study examines the effects of attending a presentation by entrepreneurs on students’ entrepreneurial inclinations before and after either a lecture by an entrepreneur or a panel presentation on entrepreneurship by several area entrepreneurs. Students attending either of the presentations completed a questionnaire that included the Entrepreneurship Identity Aspiration Scale (Farmer, Yao and Kung-McIntyre, 2011) before attending the presentation and immediately after the presentation concluded. Attendance at either presentation yielded the same results. Attending a presentation increased male students’ beliefs that they will become entrepreneurs in the future. Female students also showed an increase in entrepreneurial beliefs, but the change was not statistically significant. Changes in students’ entrepreneurial inclinations were not statistically significant.