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T1 Entrepreneurial Interest and Entrepreneurial Competence Among Spanish Youth: An Analysis with Artificial Neural Networks
A1 Luis Rico, María Isabel
A1 Escolar Llamazares, María del Camino
A1 Torre Cruz, Tamara de la
A1 Jiménez, Alfredo
A1 Herrero Cosío, Álvaro
A1 Palmero Cámara, María del Carmen
A1 Jiménez Eguizábal, Alfredo
K1 Youth
K1 Secondary education
K1 Entrepreneurial intention
K1 Entrepreneurial interest
K1 Psychological variables
K1 Informática
K1 Computer science
K1 Enseñanza secundaria
K1 Education, Secondary
AB Studies of the socio-economic function of entrepreneurship have emphasized the criticalrole that entrepreneurial competence and its implementation play at different stages of the educationsystem. In this paper, as a research objective, we seek to determine the entrepreneurial interest ofSpanish youth aged between 15 and 18 years of age enrolled in formal secondary education programs,an initial stage in the development of entrepreneurship. A previously validated ad hoc questionnaire isapplied through simple random sampling to 1764 students at secondary school in Spain. A descriptivecross-sectional study is carried out. The analysis is done with Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs),a technique that reduces the high dimensionality of data through Cooperative Maximum LikelihoodHebbian Learning (CMLHL), applying neurocomputational methods to the educational sciences.We find as key results that Spanish youth express a medium level of interest in entrepreneurship.Analysis with ANNs shows that education in entrepreneurial competence is an influential aspect ofinterest in entrepreneurship. As a conclusion, our results suggest that educational and curricularreforms must be undertaken to promote the development of entrepreneurial competence at variousstages of education in order to increase interest in entrepreneurship.
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7244
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7244
LA eng
NO This research was funded by MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND COMPETITIVENESS. GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN, grant number EDU 2012-39080-C07-00 a 07.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024