NURTURING TOMORROW'S INNOVATORS: THE INFLUENCE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION ON STUDENT AMBITIONS
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Students' proclivity to start their own businesses might be impacted by a variety of circumstances. The goal of a student to become an entrepreneur may have a long-term effect on their proclivity to participate in creative conduct. The primary goal of this study was to discover the elements that impact students' desires to establish their own enterprises, such as entrepreneurship courses, teaching techniques, campus culture, and student views. The primary data for this research came from students in Pakistan who were taking an entrepreneurial course as part of their education. Data was collected from 200 randomly chosen students using a survey questionnaire on a Likert scale of 1 to 5. The next stages in the study were to describe the data, conduct linear regressions, and compute Pearson's correlation coefficients. The findings reveal a statistically significant relationship between a school's ethos, teaching techniques, and students' attitudes about starting their own businesses, as well as their intentions to do so. Nevertheless, no statistically significant relationship was found between student demographics (such as gender and family status) and entrepreneurial goals. Male and female students both exhibited a strong desire to pursue entrepreneurial jobs and launch their own enterprises. The study's findings point to a number of promising future research directions, including the use of mixed methods, a comparison of different provinces and administrative divisions in Pakistan in light of the country's multicultural and multilingual nature, and the formation of partnerships between educational institutions to ensure the effective incorporation of entrepreneurship training into the curriculum. These are just a handful of the directions the paper proposes future research may go.
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