The Effect Of Entrepreneurship Education On Entrepreneurship Activities

As the value of entrepreneurial avtivities has been revealed,governments and higher education institutions start paying more and more attention on Entrepreneurship Education and Training(EET).Meanwhile,the research on EET's effect becomes an increasingly popular topic.A large number of studies have demonstrated that the EET will make significant influence on students' entrepreneurial intention and behaviours.This research,firstly makes a summary of previous studies on EET's effect and the importance of social capital in entrepreneurial activities.However,the research conducted by previous studies are not so rigorous that they either overestimated or underestimated the effect of EET.Besides,althrough social capital plays a critical role in entrepreneurial activities,rarly research studies the effect of EET from the perspective of social capital.Hence,this research uses the Quasi Natural Experiment samples provided by Intensive Training Program of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Zhejiang University(ITP),studying the influence of EET and the mediation effect of social capital.The conclusion is showed as following:(1)EET will significantly improve students' rate of entrepreneurship.(2)EET enables its stduents,who start their own business,to achieve higher success on entrepreneurial activities.(3)Entrepreneurship-related social capital plays a patly mediation role when EET makes influence on entrepreneurial success.(4)More specifically,EET will increase students'centrality and structural hole,which will then help students achieve higher success on entrepreneurship.(5)Although EET can help its students find their entrepreneurship partners in its alumnis network,their entrepreneurial succeess will be constrained if they rely too much on this relational social capital.Through theoretical and empirical research,this study points out the specific influence of EET on students' entrepreneurship rate and entrepreneurial success,as well as the mediation effect of social capital.This,on the one hand,diversify the research on the effect of EET and the theory of social capital.On the other hand,it also provides valuable advice to governments,higher education institutions and the students who have strong interests in Entrepreneurship.