Entrepreneurial profile of Engineering students: Empirical study through structural equations

Authors

Ayaviri Panozo, Alberto

Abstract

For developed countries, the creation of new companies allows revitalizing stagnant economies and facing unemployment problems, and due to the pandemic, the employment crisis is experienced with more impact in developing countries, such as Latin America and Bolivia in particular. The critical employment situation and the difficulties to find a job that new professionals trip up, motivates to carry out a study on the entrepreneurial behavior of university students with a focus on Technology areas, with a sample of 147 students from the Faculty of Science and Technology (CyT) of the Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca (USFX) and applying structural equation models, seeks to identify the most relevant factors for entrepreneurial behavior. The results obtained in the present investigation show that the students of the Faculty of Science and Technology have a significant entrepreneurial behavior of 57.5% influenced by their leadership, their planning capacity, predisposition to take risks and be sociable, recommending applying similar studies in other areas of knowledge.