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This paper tests an expanded entrepreneurial intention model to identify the factors that shape the entrepreneurial attitudes and the intentions of college students while considering the effect that entrepreneurship education has on these students. In this paper we propose an extended model to explain entrepreneurial intentions that includes perceived university support, structural support, and family support. Results indicate that perceived university support is not significantly related to perceived desirability and feasibility entrepreneurial intentions. The results also indicate that perceived desirability and feasibility of entrepreneurial action remain significant predictors of college students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Moreover, findings show that the new variable - perceived family support - is positively related to perceived desirability and feasibility of starting a business. Finally, perceived structural support in terms of economic and political support for entrepreneurs was found to positively influence perceived desirability and feasibility to start a business. Our findings suggest that educators and policymakers need to consider the role of personal perceptions of family and structural support when seeking to promote entrepreneurial actions of college students through policies or educational programs and to rethink the current models of entrepreneurial education that are detached from family support.
Osorio et al. (Tue,) studied this question.