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Abstract: The extant literature on entrepreneurial intentions has examined the relationship between human entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurship policy, especially in terms of institutional environment and institutionalism or the role of supporting policies. The aim of this article is to empirically verify the impact of perceived public support and institutional barriers on students' entrepreneurial intentions. The article uses the quantitative approach typical for social sciences. Based on a literature review, two hypotheses were retrieved, and then empirically verified. The primary tool was a survey conducted on a relatively large sample of 719 students of seven different universities from Krakow (Poland). The multiple regression was applied as a leading tool for hypotheses verification. The results confirmed that positively perceived public support in favour of entrepreneurship strengthens the young generation's entrepreneurial intentions to start their own business, while negatively perceived administration barriers against entrepreneurship blunts the young generation's entrepreneurial intentions to start their own business. Therefore, this article's contribution to extant literature is the replication of research from well-advanced economies in the discussed scope and its transfer to the realities in Poland. Furthermore, the contribution of this article is a verification of the postulated negative perception of institutional barriers, and not just obstacles related to obtaining financial support, as it is the case in various articles.
Keywords: public support, administration barriers, institutional barriers, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial intentions
JEL: L26, L38, D73
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Introduction
Although derived from social psychology, intention-based models are successfully applied in management research, particularly in entrepreneurship studies. On their basis, we can predict future behaviour, which is essential both to managers, economic analysts, and decision-makers responsible for shaping an appropriate system of support for entrepreneurship, including its important element, namely entrepreneurship education (Bartha et al., 2018; Wach & Głodowska, 2019) whose main task is to shape proper entrepreneurial attitudes. An appropriate education system stimulating entrepreneurship is significant for economic practice (Gubik & Bartha, 2018), the European Union has recommended such solutions has recommended such solutions for many years, but also in Poland the implementation of those recommendations is becoming more and more critical, not only at economics universities but also in non-economic fields of study (Płaziak & Rachwał, 2014), especially in the aspect of the internationalization and Europeanization of Polish universities (Dobbins &...