High unemployment rates and inadequate employment are significant obstacles to achieve one of the Indonesia Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) which is poverty alleviation. The development of entrepreneurship and technology-based business start-up trends is one solution to these problems. Universitas Andalas organizes The Entrepreneur Lecture Series regularly in the form of knowledge sharing by business persons and entrepreneurs to support those trends. A study to investigate the effectiveness of knowledge sharing conducted through the Entrepreneur Lecture Series in improving engineering students’ technopreneur capabilities and individual innovation behavior. Data collected through a survey of engineering, agricultural, and information technology students. Analysis carried out with SEM-PLS, while the mediating effect of individual innovation behavior tested using the Sobel Test. The test results show that knowledge sharing conducted through the Entrepreneur Lecture Series has a positive influence on improving the technopreneur capabilities of engineering, agricultural technology, and information technology students. However, the effect is still relatively weak. Efforts are needed to improve the effectiveness of knowledge sharing. Further testing is required to determine the effect of knowledge sharing through the Entrepreneur Lecture Series on individual innovation behavior.

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