DEVELOPING ENTREPRENEURS: ENTREPRENEURIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Year 2019, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 202 - 221, 01.12.2019

Oğuzhan İrengün

https://doi.org/10.14514/byk.m.26515393.2019.7/2.202-221

Abstract

Purpose- This paper aims to find out which convictions and characteristics are affecting the entrepreneurial intentions of the university from all educational fields and levels of students in Turkey. For this purpose, it seeks to analyze the entrepreneurial characteristics and demographical information of 450 university students in Turkey and cluster the sample meaningfully into different groups. Factor analysis is conducted on 27 different attributes on which Turkish students’ entrepreneurial characteristics. Six factors have emerged of this analysis, which is explaining a total of 55% of the entrepreneurial characteristics of respondents. The effects of demographical attributes on these factors are determined and finally, cluster analysis is conducted. As a result of cluster analysis three clusters are determined and named “Learning”, “Waiting” and “Ready to Go” respectively.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Behavior, Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Intentions

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