Mediatory Impact of Expert Class to the Change of the Entrepreneurship Intention: A Case Study of Entrepreneurship Courses in XXX University

Abstract

Scholars have arguments on the impacts of experts in entrepreneurial intentions inside the entrepreneurship courses. Most scholars agreed that it has impacts, some others agreed that it has impacts though it was not the direct impacts. We have been inserting experts in our entrepreneurship courses for six consecutive semesters. The experts came from industries and from lecturers that have expertise in the entrepreneur’s field. We examined 164 students that have managed to complete at least one of the entrepreneurship courses. The findings showed that experts have the mediatory impacts for the students’ entrepreneurial intentions.