Technological Factors and the Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students in Peru through PLS SEM Analysis

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the factors of technological entrepreneurship that explain the intention of entrepreneurship in university students in Peru; The type of research is basic, with a quantitative approach, at the explanatory level, with a non-experimental design, the sample is 148 students at a university in Peru; The research determines that the influence of technological entrepreneurship factors is significant in the entrepreneurial intention of university students in Peru. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used where values greater than 0.90 were obtained for the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin tests, as well as for Bartlett's sphericity test p=0.000 and the analysis of the explained variance in 58.46% for the instrument used; determining that the interrelation of the items is satisfactory. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was applied, obtaining values for CFI=0.935, TLI=0.926, being close to 1, determining that the models are appropriate and give validity to the construct. Thus, the validity of the construct is also carried out through the PLS-SEM analysis, which through the path coefficients determined the level of relationship between the exogenous and endogenous variables, establishing that they are strong because it was obtained for F1->VD=0.867, F2->VD=0784, F3->VD=0753 and F4->VD=0696. Likewise, through ordinal regression using the Pseudo R square in the Nagelkerke indicator, 55.8% was obtained and in the model adjustment, Sig = 0.00 was obtained. The bootstrapping technique was applied through the PLS-SEM analysis, obtaining values greater than 2 for the T statistic, as well as for the P-values less than 0.05, these results determine that there is a causal relationship between the factors of technological entrepreneurship and the intention of the Entrepreneurship in university students from Peru.