Nascent Entrepreneurship

Abstract: Though much research in entrepreneurship has evaluated the role of personality traits in entrepreneurs, few studies have addressed the personality traits of entrepreneurship students. In this study we measure five key entrepreneurial personality traits; the need for achievement, perception of risk, locus of control, independence, and self-efficacy. This is accomplished using survey data from 31 entrepreneurship masters students, and 31 non-entrepreneurship business masters student. We found that entrepreneurship students scored the same as other business students in; need for achievement, locus of control, and self-efficacy. However there was a significant difference between entrepreneurship students, and other business students when measuring independence, and perception of risk.