Improving Students' Entrepreneurship Intention Through Entrepreneurship Education with Opportunity Recognition as an Intervening Variable

Abstract

Aims: The unemployment rate is very high. To reduce this, a large number of jobs are needed. If for a few years ago, university graduates were oriented to get a job after graduation, then with the existence of entrepreneurship education, they will be able to change the orientation of students to be able to create new jobs through entrepreneurship. Study Design: Quantitative Research. Methodology: This study explores the entrepreneurship education carried out in universities by distributing research questionnaires to 123 students of the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Technology, Sumbawa using an incidental sampling technique. The data obtained were then processed by researchers using structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis. Results: The results prove that there is a direct effect of entrepreneurship education and opportunity recognition on entrepreneurial intention. To prove that there is an indirect effect, the Sobel test is carried out. After conducting the Sobel test, the results are it was concluded that opportunity recognition is a variable that mediates the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions because the Sobel test score 4.495 > 1.960. Conclusion: Entrepreneurship education can increase opportunity recognition. Then, opportunity recognition directly affects students' intentions to become entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship education in the study was found to increase students' entrepreneurial.