Abstract:

This questionnaire was the beginning of a Digital Entrepreneurship project called "EmDigital: Competences for Digital Entrepreneurship of University Students" (Ref. 20962 / PI / 18).

This study, which is still being developed, is part of the work of the Educational Technology Research Group (GITE) of the University of Murcia (Spain). It is directed by Professor MªPaz Prendes, a professor at the same institution.

Prior to the implementation of the questionnaire being analyzed, we verified that there were some shortcomings in the field of digital entrepreneurship in the university curricula. For this reason, the main objective of this project is the investigation of the training needs of university students in the last year of their degree.

In this way, to be able to design a skills training appropriate to each need. Through the analysis of the questionnaire, it is verified that the surveyed students are able to handle technological devices regularly. However, there are specific gaps in the use of information technology to carry out an entrepreneurial project.

The main objective of this questionnaire is to verify the deficiencies of digital entrepreneurship in students in the last year of the degree. Once the competence deficit has been examined, design adequate training in Digital Entrepreneurship that adapts to the needs of the students. The method used in this analysis is a Likert-type questionnaire with five agreement-disagreement values that, passing the validation of the expert judgment, was made up of 70 items.

The items were organized based on the dimensions of the Emdigital Model:
• Identification of opportunities
• Action planning
• Initiative and collaboration
• Management and Security.

At a general level, the dimensions "Identification of opportunities" and "Management and security" have similar results due to the similarity of the distribution of their responses. In the first place, the majority percentage responded to be "Agree" with the possession of competences in relation to the indicators (31.48% and 34.46%; respectively). The figures below these answers are those corresponding to the indifferent option ("Neither agree nor disagree"), being 26.39% and 27.94%; respectively. On the other hand, the responses corresponding to the dimensions "Action planning" and "Implementation and collaboration" behave in one way. The option "Agree" is still the majority (31.17% and 32.27%). However, the next one with the most answers is "Totally agree" (29.92% and 25.57%). All dimensions agree that the least chosen option is "Totally disagree". The results obtained revealed certain aptitude insecurity both in technical matters of digital competence and in entrepreneurship competence. The surveyed subjects demonstrate confidence in their technological capabilities for searching and browsing the Internet, using basic software and using social networks. However, they themselves treasure not being totally in agreement with having the competencies related to the indicators.

Keywords:

Digital entrepreneurship, competences, students, questionnaire.