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An Empirical Study on the Antecedents of Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship

Departamento de Ingeniería de Organización, Administración de Empresas y Estadística, ETSI Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain

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Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi

Instituto de Ciencias de la Educación (ICE), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/Profesor Aranguren 3, 28040 Madrid, Spain

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Ana M. Vargas-Perez

Departamento de Ingeniería de Organización, Administración de Empresas y Estadística, ETSI Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain

E-mail Address: ana.vargas@upm.es

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219877016400113Cited by:11 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This study sheds light on the importance of the exposure to entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial role models regarding the entrepreneurial intention of engineering students, as they are the potential founders of new knowledge intensive start-ups. With this purpose, a questionnaire surveying a sample of 851 engineering students from a technical university in Spain is developed. The results point out that parents who own a business foster entrepreneurial intention and related attitudes in their sons/daughters. To the contrary, civil servants are identified as a negative role model, hindering both attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurship.

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