Intenção empreendedora dos estudantes universitários da área de TI

Abstract

This study consists of analyzing which factors influence the entrepreneurial intention of university students in the Information Technology (IT) area. For this purpose, five variables were defined to be analyzed, which were based on the models proposed by Paiva et al. (2018), Rodrigues et al. (2019) and Maciel et al. (2019), which are: influence of parents' own business experience, students' place of origin, students' professional experience, institutional incentive for entrepreneurial education and the campus environment on entrepreneurial intention. Three concepts were used for theoretical foundation, namely: entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial profile and entrepreneurial intention aimed at students in the IT area. The research typology is descriptive in nature with a quantitative basis, this study uses quantitative field and bibliographic research. The research strategy used was the survey method. For data collection, a questionnaire was created with direct questions and some Likert scale through the Google Forms platform. Excel software was used for data organization and SPSS software for analysis. The population consists of university students from the UFC Campus de Quixadá of undergraduate courses, 144 responses were collected for analysis. The results obtained show a positive influence on the entrepreneurial intention of students on the place of origin, professional experience, institutional incentive and the campus environment.