Entrepreneurial Intentions During COVID-19: Case Study in Spanish and Colomhian University Students

Abstract

Toe aim was to ascertain the entrepreneurial intention (EI) during COVID- 19 pandemic, based on a comparative analysis of the attitudes (AE), behaviours (PBC), and entrepreneurial skills (EC) of economics and business students. For this purpose, a structured questionnaire was applied to a representative sample of students from two public universities in two dissimilar economies, following the methodological framework proposed by Liñán and Chen (2009), a 95 % confidence level and a 4.66 % margin of error. Two significant differences in the causal effect were found between PBC and university, which were El Social Valuation (SV) and university EC during COVID-19. Five significant analogies were observed demonstrating a causal effect between AE and university El; Social Norm (SN) and university PBC; SN and university AE; SV and university PBC and, between EC and university El during COVID-19. As well as, there is no causal effect between SN and university El and between SV and university El during COVID-19. These divergences and analogies proved that there are variations between the models of university El in Colombia and Spain during COVID-19, despite the fact that the pandemic situation <loes not condition university El.