Impact of personal characteristics on students’ entrepreneurial potential

Abstract

This research aims at exploring factors impacting entrepreneurial potential through applying Entrepreneur Scan (E-Scan) model developed by Driessen and Zwart and other entrepreneurial potential related researches. The main object of study is students of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. The results of this research indicate that seven characteristics significantly impact on student’s entrepreneurial potential, of which three characteristics have posive impacts, including need for achievement, market awareness, and flexibility. Through ANOVA analysis, three groups of students with different majors and from different universities are analyzed to identify the differences in personal characteristics and entrepreneurial potential. This research bring meaningful findings to education policy makers in building entrepreneurial oriented programs and supports to encourage potential students to start their own business.