Entrepreneurial Traits among Undergraduate Technical Students: Insights for Startup Education

Abstract

Cultivation of startup culture among university campuses has become a celebrated fashion and demand of 21st century. As the third mission of university has got popularity among educators, policy makers and university administrators, the need to induce entrepreneurship education and training to different course and discipline has been evident across academic ecosystem. This study has been conducted with the focus to investigate the level of entrepreneurial traits and inclination as a result of introduction to entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research study is to explore the entrepreneurial trait of B.Tech students of a private university in Madhya Pradesh which has been taken for research. This study assessed the six entrepreneurial traits of a convenient sample. The derived level of entrepreneurial traits among students has been empirically tested with cross sectional data belonging to the same population which has undergone course on entrepreneurship. This study indicates the lack of ingredients in the existing entrepreneurship syllabus and pedagogy which need to be improved to strengthen students’ entrepreneurial traits and make the conventional entrepreneurship education more startup oriented.