Exploring the Future of the Engineer Profession: The Effect of the Entrepreneurial Engineers’ Mental Models on Their Opportunity Recognition Capabilities
研究了创业工程师的心智模型（如创业经验、知识和教育）如何影响其识别商业机会的能力，发现创业教育和经验对机会识别有显著正向作用，适合关注创业教育或工程师职业发展的读者。
This work evaluates the effects of entrepreneurial engineers' mental models on their opportunity recognition capability. We use mental model proxies such as entrepreneurial experience, knowledge, and education. Through a self-applied survey, we found that entrepreneurial experience, entrepreneurial education, and opportunity recognition are unidimensional constructs. Both entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial experience show a significant positive effect on opportunity recognition. Both the mean of opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial knowledge show a significant difference between individuals with or without entrepreneurship experience. Entrepreneurial education shows a significant positive effect on entrepreneurial knowledge. Also, age shows a positive effect on entrepreneurial knowledge. We use for the first time in opportunity recognition literature the semantic perspective of mental model theory to discuss and explain research results.