Entrepreneurial Education As Antecedent of Indonesian Private University Students’ Entrepreneurial Creativity

Abstract

Entrepreneurship education has been regarded as an important  element in Indonesian higher education, since entrepreneurship has  emerged into one of the backbones of Indonesian economy. We  conducted this research to observe entrepreneurship education and its  aspects in triggering creativity in entrepreneurship, which are  entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intention. We  conducted this research at several private universities in Indonesia by  surveying 600 university students, with the help of online  questionnaires spread into selected private universities in Indonesia  which have entrepreneurship program. The questionnaire that we  developed is based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), which  we combined with entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial  intention variables. We analysed the data using a path analysis  technique with SmartPLS version 3 as a tool for analysis. Our results  show that when variables of TPB affects entrepreneurial orientation. In  this case it shows significant and positive effects which eventually  cause a similar effect on entrepreneurial