Introduction

There has been a lot of attention going towards entrepreneurship lately,

especially around academic circles. Students are being pushed to learn about
startups and self-employment in order to boost the economy which is a good
prospect because entrepreneurs grow an economy. So it seems to me that it is
very important to establish the factors that drive entrepreneurial intention.
Entrepreneurial intention depends on many variables varying from factors one
has no power over like age, gender, ethnicity, family background and factors that
one can control to some degree like education, especially in the later years,
epistemological beliefs, role models, dreams, etc I would like to research these
factors, mainly the factors we have some power over, while controlling for the
other variables. My research will start by focusing on evolutionary psychology to
determine some assumptions about gender differences which are assumed to
have consequences for the foundations of entrepreneurial intention and learning.
I will collect data to express epistemological beliefs under gender aspects of
business students in Belgium. By this data I hope to connect it to the
aforementioned assumptions.

MAIN IDEA TITLE: Its the entrepreneur that grows an economy. Gender, family,
role models and educational background as predictor of entrepreneurial drive of
business students in Belgian Society.
KEY WORDS: epistemological beliefs, entrepreneurship, evo-psychology (ex.
scarcity and abundance mentality), planned behavior theory, students,
education, risks, age(young or old), ethnicity, organizational learning, computerbased education, intrinsic education, energy levels
Research question: Which epistemological beliefs concerning the foundation
of entrepreneurial intention are the best predictors of successful
entrepreneurship for Belgian (business) students?
Multiple Hypotheses: Example: There is a link between epistemological
beliefs and entrepreneurial intention
Example: degree of entrepreneurial intention will be different
depending on epistemological beliefs between young and old
business students
Example: degree of entrepreneurial intention will be
different depending on epistemological beliefs between males and females in
Belgium
Example: Epistemological beliefs will be different between
business students depending on their upbringing (educational level and college
trajectory, family upbringing, gender, self-esteem, energy levels)

Certainty of knowledge, structure of knowledge, control of knowledge ability and

speed of knowledge. How are knowledge beliefs linked with risk taking and
entrepreneurial learning?

Research strategy: paradigms

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Epistemological beliefs on SELF education under gender aspects

Why do Employees Leave Their Jobs for Self-Employment? The
Impact of Entrepreneurial Working Conditions and entrepreneurial
learning
Computer-based education???
LINK BETWEEN entrepreneurial behavioral beliefs and epistemological
beliefs
The epistemological and methodological problems of economics: How
humans deal with uncertainty
Epistemological beliefs, moral reasoning, social engineering and
entrepreneurship: Whos winning: good or evil?
Epistemological beliefs concerning hidden assumptions about
entrepreneurship.
Personal epistemological beliefs and transformational leadership behaviors
under gender aspects
Business Students' Intelligence, epistemological beliefs and learning

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Associations between epistemological beliefs and moral reasoning of

business students
The Art of Entrepreneurship: Relationship between gender specific
epistemological beliefs and success in the business world
Relationship between epistemological beliefs and entrepreneurial intensity
in the corporate sector.
Epistemological beliefs relationship with the increasing complexity of
society and the economy: differences between generations (controlled for
background variables like gender, ethnicity etc)