Do entrepreneurship challenges raise student’s entrepreneurial competencies and intention?

Motivated by the question on what content and which pedagogical methodologies are effective in teaching entrepreneurship, this research tested whether entrepreneurial intention competencies changed after undergraduates attended an entrepreneurship challenge (ECH) experience. This experience was carefully designed as a 5-week in-class education 1-week boot camp-type intensive activity. The design empirical, survey-based pre- post-study sample of 525 freshmen. Results showed increase measured ( opportunity identification, evaluation exploitation, resources procurement ). contributes to through measurement program based previous framework for courses aligned with education-through-entrepreneurship approach.