Exploring Technopreneurial Intentions in Female Engineering Students: Influence of Need for Achievement and Innate Innovativeness

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has long been regarded as a crucial research field by economists and academics from around the world. Technology has a significant influence on business growth in today's culture. Aiming for a technology- based business is a way to create techno-entrepreneurs. The current study aims to develop the concept of technology-based entrepreneurship or technopreneurial inclination among female engineering students. The study establishes the effect of need for achievement and innate innovativeness in the formation of Technopreneurial Intention. Three central universities of Arunachal Pradesh are considered for the study. For the study, a 5-pont Likert scale-based questionnaire was employed. The targeted demographic was the subject of data collection via stratified random sampling. Data was gathered from the 160 female students. Structural equation modelling (SEM) with AMOS (version 26), was used for data analysis. The study demonstrated that both innate innovativeness and need for achievement have a beneficial direct and indirect impact on technopreneurial intention. The results imply that individuals who show interest in launching a new technology-based business have a strong sense of self- worth in their capacity to carry out the technological and entrepreneurial duties required are assured of their ability for success, and possess the inner drive to look for techno-innovations.