Primary Outcomes (explanation)
In order to measure the outcome variables we will use the following measures taken from the literature (measures 1 to 5 will be constructed based on surveys; measures 6 are objective measures based on secondary sources):
1) Awareness of entrepreneurship support programs; (6-point scale Likert scale); Self-reported at individual student level, through questionnaires (ex-ante, ex-post)
2) Entrepreneurial intentions; Psychometric scale (7-point Likert scale, Kautonen et al., 2015); Self-reported at individual student level, through questionnaires (ex-ante, ex-post)
3) Entrepreneurial feasibility; Psychometric scale (7-point Likert scale, Kautonen et al., 2015); Self-reported at individual student level, through questionnaires (ex-ante, ex-post)
4) Entrepreneurial attitudes; Psychometric scale (7-point Likert scale, Kautonen et al., 2015); Self-reported at individual student level, through questionnaires (ex-ante, ex-post)
5) Perceived support for entrepreneurship; 1-item scale about the perceived efficacy of university initiatives to support entrepreneurship (6-point Likert scale)
Self-reported at individual student level, through questionnaires (ex-ante, ex-post)
6.a)Entrepreneurial behavior; Summative index of the number of start-up activities undertaken (0-1 index, Shirokova et al., 2015)
Self-reported at individual student level, through questionnaires (ex-ante, ex-post)
6.b) Entrepreneurial behavior; Participation in incubation or acceleration programs; business start-up creation (binary outcome variables)
Objective data regarding the individual student, through secondary data