Increasing investments in incubators, accelerators, and academia coincide with current historical perceptions of the United States as a world leader creating new businesses, well an economic force dependent, part, on entrepreneurship. Research identifies various personality characteristics related to entrepreneurship, however, entrepreneur-specific measures have rarely been studied. This study ...

Despite all efforts made by political agents to reduce the gap between regions with a high level of economic activities and those with a considerably lower one, an uneven distribution of regional success and development can be observed. For example, in Germany, there is a decline in economic activities, like innovations, employment or start-ups rates, from the south to the north and in addition...

America’s economic growth and international competitiveness significantly depend on its ability to innovate. Entrepreneurship is an important pathway to innovation and leadership—however, until recently there has been little research exploring what factors influence whether or not engineering graduates will engage in entrepreneurial activities. This study explored how engineering alumni who are...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention, personality traits that can affect and cause positive changes in intention after intervention an program. In order measure levels, two questionnaires (pretest-posttest group design) were used. Both completed by 202 business students, studying at a public university based Athens, Greece. Our...