Citation:Unnithan, D. and Ramanadhan, H.N. (2018). Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention in the Most Literate State of India: A Perspective on Emerging Environmental Valuations. 9th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2018), Department of Management Studies and Toc H Institute of Science and Technology, India, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.p.30
Date:2018
Abstract:
The transformative powers of the contextual environment on the entrepreneurial pursuits of
nations had always been awe inspiring for India. With an unprecedented upsurge in startup
initiatives in the country, India has also slowly starting pitching itself into the entrepreneurial
foray resting its ambition on youth. Realizing the up springing of entrepreneurial intentions
among the young in the country, policymakers in Centre as well as States are competing to
amass all support elements in the operative environment of students who aspire to be selfemployed
and create employment for others. The undulations of this paradigm is well
experienced in the most literate state of India - Kerala which has started evaluating and favoring
first generation entrepreneurs within families and societies. This paper attempts to analyze
whether these evaluations by the environmental components can influence the entrepreneurial
intention of students in Kerala. The data was collected from a representative sample of 474
final year students from BTech/MBA courses identified through stratified random sampling
across the length and breadth of the state of Kerala. Findings proved that the entrepreneurial
intention of students of Kerala is subject to valuations by elements of the closer environment
as well as general environment which can have significant effects on policy imperatives in this
regard
