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Motivation And Blockades For Entrepreneurship Among Graduates

Year: 2019
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The Indian government is facing a main challenge of youth unemployment for decades. Entrepreneurship is a frequent topic of discussion to many academicians and research scholars. It is a treasured supplementary tactic to generation of jobs, upgrade lifestyle and economic freedom of young people. With potential efforts and strategies by the government, educational institutes and the communities, it is important to boost employment and job creation for the youth of our country. Entrepreneurship has been an engrossing subject for most of the researchers and it ha s been put forth regarding an individual’s skills, characteristics, and interests. The study focuses on the entrepreneurial intention in general and to analyse the blockades and motivating factors for business start up among graduates . The study consists of final year graduate students studying in different colleges affiliated to Mangalore University. The study is exploratory in nature and the sample size consists of 433 final year students from various colleges within Mangaluru city. The data is interpreted through descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and correlation tests. The results reveal that most of the students are not certain about their future goals. It is explored that they have a significant correlation between inclination towards entrepreneurship and desire for autonomy, self determination, realisation of own ideas, thinking innovatively and ability of risk taking. Meanwhile, the students also lack creative skills, confidence, and business idea. It is concluded that the graduates are found to be reluctant towards entrepreneurship. It is necessary to inspire them to take up challenges and think creatively through various entrepreneurship related activities in the colleges.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2996731176
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