Roots of the entrepreneurial mindset in university students

Abstract

Despite the orientation of their students' graduate profile being a latent concern in universities, many have concentrated their efforts on the managerial rather than the entrepreneurial profile. Against such a backdrop, the present research seeks to assess the impact of the relevance and adequacy of curriculum and course content on entrepreneurial mindset. It also examines the mediation of the competence of the lecturing team and problem solving. To this end, we conducted an empirical study with 404 business students from public and private universities in the Arequipa region (Peru). The results show that the relevance and adequacy of curriculum and course content positively influences entrepreneurial mindset. It was also found that the competence of the lecturing team and problem solving have a positive partial mediating role in the study model. Specifically, these results facilitate our understanding of the main factors that help improve the entrepreneurial mindset in undergraduate business students.