Entrepreneurship education and its impact on the entrepreneurship career intentions : a study of Algerian students’ entrepreneurial intentions and opportunity identification (case study Université Amar Telidji)‎

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Purpose -This study aims towards investigating the impact of entrepreneurship education by means of variables that include : attitudes toward entrepreneurial behavior, personal standards and perceived behavioral control and on the basis of entrepreneurship career intentions of students from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Business Sciences and Management Sciences at Laghouat University.

Design / methodology - Depending on the design of a questionnaire directed at (46) for randomly selected students, the study examines the extent to which students intend to participate in entrepreneurship in the near future.

The Spearman correlation test and regression analysis were used to test the relationships between entrepreneurship education and the entrepreneurship career intentions to activate the components of planned behavior theory.

Findings- It has been found that entrepreneurship education had a positive correlation with the entrepreneurial intentions of entrepreneurship.

In addition, the results largely proved the validity of the planned behavior theory as an invaluable instructional tool for academics and trainers.

It also assessed policy makers seeking to find effective ways to promote the process of creating potential entrepreneurs.

Recommendations -If one is to stimulate entrepreneurship in the educational or training community, the results of this study provide guidance by making many suggestions on how to improve leadership vigilance.