Student Entrepreneurship 2016: Insights From 50 Countries

Entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful economic forces in modern societies. Our future well-being thus critically depends on current and future entrepreneurial activities. Young individuals, and particularly students, represent the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. It is thus imperative to know how many students intend to pursue an entrepreneurial career, why, why not, and how many are in the founding process or have already created a business. The GUESSS Project (Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey) is dedicated to investigate this topic since 2003. This report provides detailed insights into the corresponding findings from the 7th data collection wave in the history of GUESSS. It was conducted in Spring/Summer 2016 in 50 countries, at more than 1’000 universities, and generated more than 122’000 completed responses