Characteristics and Attitudes of Entrepreneurs Towards Entrepreneurship

AbstractThis study develops and uses a scale to identify the innovativeness and positive attitudes of entrepreneurs towards entrepreneurship. The reliability of the scale is found to be high, and based on random sample of 78 entrepreneurs the most and the least innovative characteristics they have and the most and the least positive attitudes they have towards entrepreneurship are revealed. Furthermore, the effects of entrepreneurs’ demographic characteristics on these measures are investigated based on hypothesis tests