Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education Students

The topic of entrepreneurship has been considered an alternative to identify the development and economic growth of a region. Therefore, it is important to know the Entrepreneurial Intention (EI) of university students, in order to identify the entrepreneurial perspective of the students, and in this sense, manage the necessary resources so that professionals comply with the basic skills that the market labor demand. For this reason, the objective of this research is to carry out a diagnosis on the EI of higher education students, seeking to provide information from the students' point of view. A quantitative, non-experimental, transactional study and a correlational-causal investigation were carried out. The Theory of Planned Knowledge (TPK) was used; the Entrepreneurial Education (EE) variable was added to the variables that make up this theory. It was found that the variables perceived desirability, perceived feasibility and social norms contribute to the development of EI, for the moment the EE does not yield significant results, for which it is proposed to take measures regarding teacher training, study plans that promote entrepreneurship and extracurricular activities that give strength to the theme.