This study examines how characteristics of university departments impact students' self-employment intentions. We argue that four organizational-level factors (entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship support programs, industry ties, and research orientation) increase such intentions. Using...

Universities increasingly offer entrepreneurship education, in order to sensitize and qualify students for entrepreneurship as a career option and, ultimately, to raise the number of academic start-ups. However, to date we have relatively little evidence on the effectiveness of such offers....

Grundlagen -- Theoretische Bezugspunkte -- Stand der empirischen Forschung -- Modellkonzeption und Hypothesen -- Methodik -- Ergebnisse und Diskussion -- Implikationen und Limitationen -- Zusammenfassung.