• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.17-25
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• 2016

This research paper aims to provide valuable data to the policy makers in establishing business activation plan through improving university students'entrepreneurial intention by carrying out international comparison research regarding the social environmental factors that influences entrepreneurial intention. There have been multiple researches on personal traits that affect entrepreneurial intention in the past, but this paper examines the social environmental factors that impact entrepreneurial intention. The result of this study is as follows. First, university's assistive activity for entrepreneurship, successful entrepreneurial role model, and business market scale has positive effect on entrepreneurial intention, while government assistive policies for entrepreneurship has no direct effect on entrepreneurial intention. Second, there were some differences of entrepreneurial intention in demographic characteristics. The mean of entrepreneurial intention was highest in Chinese students. Students who have ever started their own business were highest in total mean comparison of entrepreneurial intention. Also entrepreneurial intention mean was higher in men generally. Beside, discussion is made on the implication of the study, the limitations of the study, and some directions for future studies.