An Empirical Analysis from Lucknow on The Impact of Internship and Business Incubation Programmes at University in Shaping Student’s Entrepreneurial Intentions

Abstract

The development of every country's economy depends on entrepreneurship. There are many different themes covered in the study of entrepreneurship nowadays. Numerous studies that examine the motivations for starting a business have been conducted; the bulk of them focus on personality traits and other psychological factors. However, actual entrepreneurial education, including internships and business incubators, receives less focus in the research. The current study intends to fill this gap by empirically investigating the impacts of internship programmed and company incubators on students' entrepreneurial aspirations at higher study levels at universities. After gathering information from students using a structured questionnaire, partial least square structural equation modelling technique is used with the help of Smart PLS software. The statistics show that business incubators and internship programmed have a strong and statistically significant impact on entrepreneurial tendencies In order to improve entrepreneurship's ability for risk-taking, inventiveness, and initiative as well as how these attributes might address the lack of entrepreneurial consciousness among business students, the current study can help policy-makers get a better knowledge of entrepreneurship.