Entrepreneurial Education, Self-Efficacy and Intentions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and intention in Ghana, Africa. In all, 357 questionnaires from final year undergraduate students at a public university in Ghana are analysed using linear multiple regression. The study reveals that entrepreneurship knowledge acquisition and opportunity recognition as dimensions of entrepreneurship education positively affect entrepreneurial intention (EI) and self-efficacy. Also, ESE increases the development of EI. The results further show that ESE mediated the relationship between the two measures of entrepreneurship education and EI.