Assessment of Entrepreneurial Potential in the Training of a New Generation of Change Agents in Spain

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper consider the potential of the "school-age students" as trigger for entrepreneurial potential in Spain. First, I suggest to the authors to provide more insight into the abstract related to the importance of the theme and highlight more the obtained results. Also, it should be better stated that through the school-age students the authors understand persons with the age between 12 and 18 years old.

The methodology should be better explained in the paper. In the current form, it is vague and does not offer the information related to the analyses one should expect to be interpreted in section 3. Please use a schematic approach (with steps) in describing the methodology.

Also, please provide the ATE-S items as an annex to the paper.

Furthermore, as the answers to the questions are evaluated through a 7-points Likert scale, please provide a validation of the use questionnaire , for example through the use of an structural equations modeling approach. 

Also, I suggest to the authors to include a SEM analysis into their study.

Last, please try to provide straight forward information in the paper and to avoid vague sentences such as the one in rows 396-398: "In the absence of future studies, perhaps the formation 396 of entrepreneurial potential is more consolidated in entrepreneurship education pro-397 grammes that are not strictly linked to productive entrepreneurship, but rather to entre-398 preneurial educational activities related to the social, cultural and personal spheres." -- as the authors use "perhaps" it is not clear to which extent the content of this phrase is true. Please try to support your ideas based on the data you have presented in the paper and to be firm when stating a particular issue.

Minor:

- please add information related to authors and affiliations

- please use the reference format required by the journal

A more academic language is needed.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper shared interesting and new information regarding the entrepreneurship education in various aspects for individual development. Some questions need to be addressed:

1. two section headings were the same - 1.2 and 1.3. Are there differences in these two sections? It would be helpful to use headings that reflect contents in each section.

2. the attributes studied might correlate with each other. It would be helpful to run cross-factor analysis to identify or eliminate potential multicollinearity. What tests would be proper to test such effects?

3. it would be more interesting to understand if the controlled group or the experimental group show different characteristics given their demographic, family background, or particular interests in school subjects. Although this study is not designed to project career paths, entrepreneurship literature often mention the relationships between entrepreneurial attributes and professional development. 

In general, this paper presented strong evidences of entrepreneurship education and its impacts on young people's development. 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I thank the authors for the revised version. I have no further comments.