Intenção e competências empreendedoras dos alunos de uma escola técnica em administração da rede estadual de educação profissional

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the entrepreneurial intention and skills of high school students at a state vocational education school. The method, in terms of its approach, was quantitative, descriptive and survey. To collect the data in order to obtain the necessary information, the entrepreneurial potential scale developed by Santos (2008) was used. The results analyzed, through the responses of 71 students, demonstrated that students present different entrepreneurial characteristics, some to a greater extent and others to a lesser extent, but which allows us to carry out this mapping so that they can develop in the future and thus evolve in these aspects. Although they do not reach the same or greater levels of entrepreneurial intention and skills as successful entrepreneurs presented in Santos (2008), there is a great result and a huge potential for improvement in the analyzed indices. It was noted that there were higher averages for men compared to women in terms of intention and skills and that the level of income does not necessarily lead to better entrepreneurial characteristics in all aspects.