Multiple countries have, to get more people to start their own business, invested in different entrepreneurship educations. These entrepreneurship educations purpose is to promote entrepreneurial intentions and to shape important skills, needed to become an entrepreneur.
The entrepreneurial intentions describe an individual intention to start a new venture. An individual intention develops through structures of economic incentives, sociocultural and cultural factors.
Some research exists on how entrepreneurship educations, in upper secondary school, influence the student’s entrepreneurial intentions and the focus has often been on measuring the number of new ventures started, as a result of the education. The purpose of this study is to increase the understanding of how students in upper secondary school experiencing that their entrepreneurial intentions have been influenced during the Swedish Junior Achievement Company Program Ung Företagsamhet (UF). UF is an entrepreneurship education where the students have a possibility to run a company for a year.
How does the students experiencing that their entrepreneurial intentions have been influenced by the entrepreneurship education Ung Företagsamhet?
The selected method to pursue this study’s purpose is qualitative with an actors perspective and ten students have been interviewed. The authors have selected an integrated model, to help them achieve the purpose, which before have been used to describe how entrepreneurial intentions develops.
The conclusion for this study is that the students doesn’t experiencing that their entrepreneurial intentions have been influenced enough for them to start a new venture. However, the students experiencing a stronger perceived feasibility to become an entrepreneur in the future, after the education.