Moderating effect of entrepreneurial education on the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intention in Kaduna State University

Abstract

Despite the dearth of scholarly work that examined entrepreneurial orientation at individual level in relation to intention, the relationship between the individual dimensions of risk taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness and entrepreneurial intention still produce inconsistencies of research findings. This study examines moderating role of entrepreneurial education on the relationship between individual entrepreneurial orientation and entrepreneurial intention, the study employed the partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) as the analysis technique to run and analyze the data collected from University female students using a population sample of 250. The findings of the study showed that three (3) hypotheses were rejected. The direct relationship between risk –taking, innovativeness and entrepreneurial intention (EI) were found to be insignificant. Also, entrepreneurial education failed to moderate the relationship between innovativeness and EI. However, a significant moderating role of entrepreneurial education was established between risk-taking and EI. The study concludes that entrepreneurial education is a critical factor in building the risk appetite and strengthening the pro-activeness of female students in Kaduna state university.