Entrepreneurship Education: A View Across Outcome Expectations and Antecedents in Students of Higher Education

This research aims to identify aspects associated to the outcome expectations and entrepreneurial antecedents that are predicted to influence Portuguese students to follow entrepreneurial career. To empirically test the hypothesis, we used secondary data taken from the survey EEP (Entrepreneurship Education Project) applied in Portugal. It is an approach that reviews the education directed to entrepreneurship and a theoretical approach about the outcome expectations and entrepreneurial antecedents. After this theoretical approach, it's made a statistical study of the results of the EEP questionnaire - Portugal and then the results are discussed. The sample was considered for result analysis of this study included a total universe of 2054 responses from Portuguese Universities EEP project. To this tests, we used the logistic regression for the outcome expectations and to antecedents, we used first a factor analysis and after a nonparametric test for comparison of means of two independent samples. It can be seen that the look on the expected results Autonomy, may have a relevant impact when we analyze the outcome expectations by the Portuguese students of higher education. May also be conclude that aspects such as family members who have created a business project, previous work experience and previous work experience that failed may affect the propensity to create and manage a new business project.