Paper Details

Name: Thansy M.Y & Nikita Gopal
Country: India

Year: 2026
Volume: Volume No: 13, Issue No: 1, Year: 2026
Page Number: 122-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20352486

ABSTRACT
Entrepreneurship is becoming an advocated strategic solution to graduate employability issues in sector-specific higher education. This paper discusses the relationship between institutional context and programme orientation and entrepreneurial intention among fisheries and marine science students in Kerala through primary quantitative data. A questionnaire was conducted with students at specialized fisheries universities, general universities, and affiliated colleges in both undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational programmes. Descriptive statistics, a test of mean difference, and multiple regression analysis were used to evaluate the institution and programme based entrepreneurial intention differences and adjusting the psychological determinants based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The
findings show that there are great differences in the entrepreneurial intention of various
institutions and programmes, students of specialized fisheries institutions and fisheries
orientated programmes portray a high entrepreneurial intention compared to their colleagues. The results of regression also show that the institutional and programme effects are not insignificant despite the consideration of attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control. The research adds to the existing body of comparative empirical studies in the literature on higher-education entrepreneurship and provides policy-oriented outcomes to the need to align fisheries and marine science education with entrepreneurship-driven developmental and employment goals.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial intention, fisheries education, institutional context, programme differences, Theory of Planned Behaviour, primary survey data