Study On Prior Experience Of College Students' Entrepreneurs Influence On Growth Of New Venture

In recent years,with the aggravating of university students' employment structural contradictions,combined with the government's vigorous advocation of the “Mass innovation and Entrepreneurship” policy,and the popularized of college students' entrepreneurship education,college students' employment mentality have changed in this new era,more and more college students join the entrepreneurial team.The characteristics of entrepreneurs is not only an important factor of entrepreneurship,but also an important decision-making sources for the future developments of new ventures.As an important part of human capital,whether prior experience is helpful to the growth of new ventures.Which kind of prior experience will help students to gain more resources and investments,Whether opportunities for innovative will moderate the relationship between prior experience and growth performance of new venture? All these problems will be further studied in this paper.This study preliminary comb through reading of literature,and the in-depth interviews of the college students' entrepreneurs,depicting the main dimensions of college students' previous experience.Construct prior experience of college students entrepreneurs,new ventures growth and opportunities of innovative models? Based on prior experience theory,combined with 392 data collected from College students' entrepreneurship competition,this paper analysis how richness of entrepreneurial experience,functional diversity,industry-similarity impact on enterprise growth performance,and Whether opportunities for innovative moderates the relationship between prior experience and enterprise growth performance.This paper draws the following conclusions:(1)Richness of entrepreneurial experience,functional diversity,and industry-similarity have positive impact on enterprise growth performance.(2)Opportunities for innovative positively moderates the relationship between industry-similarity and enterprise growth performance.(3)Opportunities for innovative have no effect on the relationship between richness of entrepreneurial experience,functional diversity of experience and enterprise growth performance.This study enriches prior experience theory,because this study makes prior experience of college students as a separate group,contrasting with socialentrepreneurs.In addition,this paper also has a certain guiding significance to entrepreneurship education.This study will help college students entrepreneurs realize that the important of prior experience.Learn and accumulation from the prior experience can obtain better favored by the investors,obtain more resources,and promote the growth of new venture.