A Influência do comportamento inovador na intenção empreendedora dos universitários de tecnologia da informação

Abstract

This study consists of analyzing the influence of innovative behavior (IC) on the entrepreneurial intention of information technology (IT) university students. The proposed model is based on the innovative behavior model proposed by Paiva (2017), this model uses the Kirton-Adaption-Innovation Index (KAI) of thirteen attributes that measure when the individual is innovative. Four concepts were used for the theoretical foundation of this study, they are: Innovation and propensity to innovate, entrepreneurship and innovation, entrepreneurial intention and the teaching of entrepreneurship. This study was developed through the survey method, it was applied with university students in the area of information technology, more specifically the undergraduate students of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) on the Quixadá Campus. This is a quantitative classification study of a descriptive nature, this research can be considered as bibliographic to obtain secondary data and field to obtain primary data. For data collection, the questionnaire technique was used, which contained direct questions and a Likert scale, the questionnaire was made available through the Google Forms platform. With the research universe being all UFC undergraduate students from the Quixadá Campus, 144 responses were collected that characterized the research sample. Data were organized using Excel software and processed using Statistical Package for Social Science for Windows (SPSS) software. The analysis performed with the data obtained was carried out through descriptive statistics. The results show that there is a positive influence on the relationship between the innovative behavior of information technology university students and their entrepreneurial intention, the results also emphasize that the environment incites a stimulus in this relationship, unlike the place of origin, which did not present significant results. to infer that it provides stimulation in the relationship.