| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 醫學工程學研究所 === 104 === Following the inspirations from the stories of Facebook, Google, or any other individual professional career development success, recent advances in student entrepreneurship advocacy has become a popular topic in Taiwan. Student entrepreneurs, although lacking sufficient venture capitals or social networks believed to be critical in successful business operation, have emerged in numbers amidst the arrival of knowledge economy, globalization, information network digitization. Due to its potential for promoting regional development and industrial innovation, student entrepreneurship has become a bourgeoning field of academic research.
Entrepreneurial intention is defined as a potential entrepreneur’s desire to initiate an entrepreneurial behavior, be it new business creation or professional career development. Entrepreneurial behavior is essentially an intentional process; therefore, it is widely recognized by scholars that understanding entrepreneurial intentions can facilitate prediction on whether entrepreneurial behavior will occur in the future.
Past research suggests that entrepreneurial behavior research can be categorized into psychological perspectives, economic perspectives, and sociological perspectives. In theory, entrepreneurial intention is a result of factors belonging to all three types of perspectives. Therefore, this study aims to leverage on examining National Taiwan University’s engineering/science students and non-engineering/science students’ entrepreneurial intentions through three abovementioned antecedent factors.
This study adopts a survey as data collection tool, and uses a customized survey, to collect response from students in two entrepreneurship education programs at National Taiwan University. Data analysis was performed with a multiple regression analysis. Sample was collected from a possible maximum of 359 people, responding students were 125 in total, converging on a response rate of 35.8%. All students belonged to all offering disciplines at National Taiwan University.
We find that the majority of university students at National Taiwan University show low desires for initiating their own businesses of any form. In this study, although there is no disciplinary membership difference in entrepreneurial intention level, results do show differences in the type of factors influencing entrepreneurial intention level. Entrepreneurial desirabilities of engineering/science students are mostly driven by personal attitudes toward entrepreneurial behavior, and entrepreneurial education course participation frequency; the same properties of non-engineering/science students are mostly driven by their perception of the economic and political conditions of home country.
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