Abstract

VALDIVIA-VELASCO, Magali; MARTINEZ-BAUTISTA, Humberto; CORONADO-GUZMAN, Graciela  and  AGUILERA-DAVILA, Aída. Study of the Entrepreneurial Intention of Students at the Technological University El Retoño, Mexico. Rev. latinoam. estud. educ. [online]. 2021, vol.51, n.1, pp.13-36.  Epub Oct 20, 2023. ISSN 2448-878X.  https://doi.org/10.48102/rlee.2021.51.1.336.

The purpose of this study is to know the entrepreneurial intention of the students at the Technological University El Retoño during the term May-August 2019. With this purpose, we used the instrument designed, validated, and used for Saadin and Dasking during the year 2015. It has 25 items integrated into four categories (entrepreneurial intention, perceived desirability, social norms, and perceived feasibility). The validation of consistency of each instrument´s section was through Cronbach´s alpha and the test of Spearman correlation. Using main components analysis, we built an Entrepreneurial Index, which allowed us to measure de entrepreneurial intention and to contrast hypotheses. We concluded the entrepreneurial intention of last terms´ students and administrative students are the highest of the university.

Keywords : entrepreneurial intention; Technological University El Retoño; entrepreneurship; main components.