**9. Summary**

The family plays a central role in fostering the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention (personal attitudes, subjective norm and perceived behaviour control) of their students. Aspects of the family that would foster EI are; family entrepreneurial background, family role models, birth order and financial literacy. The study showed that in each of these aspects, the family plays a key role in influencing the students entrepreneurial intention. Consequently students from Entrepreneurial families are more likely to become entrepreneurs compared to children from families that are not entrepreneur. However, the study showed that students can also develop entrepreneurial intention due to family economic needs or a need to break from the family norms.
