Intenção empreendedora e barreiras para o empreendedorismo: a percepção dos estudantes de administração da UFC

Abstract

The objective of the present research is to identify entrepreneurial intention and the barriers preventing entrepreneurship based on the perceptions of the Administration students at UFC. Although entrepreneurship is fundamental to socioeconomic development, the Administration students at UFC face several obstacles that hinder the transformation of their ideas into concrete actions, making it necessary to identify the perceived barriers that prevent these students from becoming entrepreneurs. To achieve this, it is necessary to: (i) Identify the entrepreneurial intention of UFC’s Administration students; (ii) Map the barriers that prevent those students, who have entrepreneurial intentions, from launching their ventures; (iii) Evaluate the level of student satisfaction with the Entrepreneurship education within the Administration course at UFC. Thus, quantitative research is conducted through the application of a structured questionnaire. Consequently, it is found that the students demonstrate a high entrepreneurial intention, recognize the existence of multiple obstacles to the realization of their ideas, and consider the educational support on the subject to be insufficient, which leads to the conclusion that in order to translate intention into practice, it is fundamental to improve the educational environment and implement policies to encourage entrepreneurship.