The Influence of Internet Embedding and Higher Vocational Students’ Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intentions in Qinghai Province, China: Role of Practical Learning and AI Literacy

Sustainable entrepreneurship is an important activity that drives the economy, and internet embedding, as the connection between individuals and the outside world, may be related to sustainable entrepreneurship.Therefore, combining self-determination theory and social network theory, this study collected a sample of 1,058 higher vocational students from 5 vocational schools in Qinghai Province, China, through an electronic questionnaire, and investigated the relationship between internet embedding and sustainable entrepreneurial intentions of higher vocational students, as well as the mediating effect of practical learning, and AI literacy as the boundary condition of the mechanism of internet embedding to sustainable entrepreneurial intentions of higher vocational students.The results showed that internet embedding was positively correlated with sustainable entrepreneurial intentions of higher vocational students, practical learning had a mediating effect, and AI literacy moderated the direct effect of internet embedding on practical learning and the indirect effects of AI literacy on sustainable entrepreneurial intentions of higher vocational students through practical learning in Qinghai Province, China.This suggests that higher vocational students in Qinghai Province, China, not only need to establish individual connections to the outside world but also need to incorporate entrepreneurial experiential learning and the comprehensive quality of AI collaboration to adequately stimulate their state of mind to participate in sustainable entrepreneurship in the future.Finally, the results of this study can contribute to the important field of sustainable entrepreneurship for future entrepreneur groups and higher vocational students in Qinghai Province, China, both in theory and practice.