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Abstract: Entrepreneurial education has been identified as one of the most critical factors in promoting entrepreneurship over the long run. Therefore, it is now a main concern in Egypt to develop an enterprise culture by encouraging entrepreneurship education. Cognitive style has been the center of attention among researchers and practitioners as an important factor in influencing entrepreneurial behavior. However, very few researchers studied the flexibility of cognitive style in terms of exploring factors that may influence the development of one 's cognitive style. In this sense, a better understanding of how entrepreneurship education would impact one's cognitive style along the entrepreneurial intention process is imperative.
Introduction
Entrepreneurial education has been the centre of attention and interest among researchers worldwide (Buli, and Yesuf 2015; Farashah 2013). Over the past five years, formal entrepreneurship education has received more attention in Egypt as there is a high need to cultivate the entrepreneurial mind-set among Egyptian youth to be able to develop an enterprise culture in Egypt especially after the severe unemployment problem that increases annually. Inspite of that, these initiatives have not been examined closely for evidence of influence to verify its role in developing new potential entrepreneurs (Hattab 2014; Kirby, and Ibrahim 2011). It is highly vital for policy makers and educators to see the role of entrepreneurship education in stimulating the entrepreneurial career to justify the investments done in promoting entreprenresuhip education. This is especially important for developing countries where the need for entrepreneurial development is high and the resources are scarce. Thus, there is a need to maximize the outcomes of investing in entrepreneurial development (Walter, and Block 2016; Hattab 2014; Kirby, and Ibrahim 2012). What has been done so far in entrepreneurship education studies has yielded great results as it provided some valuable insights on entrepreneurship education. However, none of the past intentions models in the entrepreneurship education literature have considered cognitive style that is believed to play a key role in how entrepreneurial behavior evolves .Therefore, researchers should start to be much better grounded in theory; knowing how to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking and behavior should now be the main concern in research. This is because it is emphasized that thinking is considered a critical element of entrepreneurial behavior as entrepreneurs often operate...