Factors Influencing the Entrepreneurial Intentions of Hong Kong and Macao Students in Chinese Mainland Universities in the Context of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: A Study from the Perspective of Cultivating Innovative Talents

Abstract

Based on the theory of planned behavior, this study considers entrepreneurial traits and divides the entrepreneurial environment into policy environment, economic environment, and educational and cultural environment. Using SPSS 23.0 and Amos 24.0 softwares, a structural equation model of entrepreneurial intentions for university students originating from Hong Kong and Macao is constructed. A questionnaire survey method is used to collect data from 689 Hong Kong and Macao students in Chinese mainland universities to explore the factors influencing their entrepreneurial intentions and the ranges of their entrepreneurial intentions based on demographic variables. The results show that entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurial traits, and entrepreneurial environment have a significant positive impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of Hong Kong and Macao students in the mainland universities. Male students have a higher level of entrepreneurial intentions than female students. Hong Kong students are more likely to have entrepreneurial intentions than Macao students, and students in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (briefly, Greater Bay Area) universities are more likely to have such intentions than those from non-Greater Bay Area universities. Students majoring in science, engineering and medicine show a lower likelihood of intension than those majoring in humanities and social sciences. To comprehensively improve the entrepreneurial intentions of Hong Kong and Macao students and enable them to better shoulder their responsibilities in sharing the development dividends of the Greater Bay Area, it is necessary to start from the entrepreneurial environment and from the perspective of cultivating innovative talents. A support framework that integrates a training system, an ecological system, and a resource system is proposed to support students from Hong Kong and Macao in entrepreneurial development in the mainland.

Keywords

entrepreneurial intention / students originating from Hong Kong and Macao / innovative talents / Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

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