How Does the Entrepreneurship Education Influence the Students' Innovation? Testing on the Multiple Mediation Model

Xingjian Wei; Xiaolang Liu; Jian Sha

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01557

How Does the Entrepreneurship Education Influence the Students' Innovation? Testing on the Multiple Mediation Model

Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 10:10:1557. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01557. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Xingjian Wei^{1

2}, Xiaolang Liu¹, Jian Sha^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
² Youth Development Research Center, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
³ College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.

Abstract

This study aims to explore the multiple mediating effects of political skills and entrepreneurial opportunity recognition between perceived entrepreneurship education and innovation. Structural equation is used to analyze data collected from 269 Chinese student entrepreneurs. Results showed that (1) there is a positive relationship between perceptions of entrepreneurship education and perceptions of innovation, (2) political skills and entrepreneurial opportunity recognition individually play a mediating role between perceived entrepreneurship education and innovation, and (3) political skills and entrepreneurial opportunity recognition play a chain mediating effect between perceived entrepreneurship education and innovation.

Keywords: entrepreneurial opportunity recognition; entrepreneurship education; innovation; multiple mediating effect; political skills.