Entrepreneurial Education, Risk Perception and Self-Efficacy as Drivers of Entrepreneurial Intentions in a Sustainability Orientated Context

This study analysed the role of risk perception and business self-efficacy feeling through entrepreneurial education acquired by higher specialised studies on the emergence of entrepreneurial intentions. The quantitative research method included a questionnaire measured on a Likert scale, which was used to collect data from high school and university students from educational institutions with an economic profile in Romania. The evaluation of the model proposed in this study and the testing of the hypotheses postulated was performed through structural equation modelling (SEM). Our findings indicated that the role of risk perception and the self-efficacy feeling acquired through entrepreneurial education have a direct positive and statistically significant impact on entrepreneurial intentions. In the context of the growing relevance of sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship, this study aims to examine how entrepreneurship education fosters sustainable entrepreneurial intentions among young people. Thus, the importance of entrepreneurial education (EE) on entrepreneurial intentions among high school and university students in Romania was confirmed. This study is to investigate how entrepreneurship education encourages sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial intents among young people in light of the growing significance of sustainable entrepreneurial intentions.