"Being Curios, Innovative, and Committed": Private College Students' Reflected Enttrepreneurial Traits

Abstract

University students’ entrepreneurial character profile needs to be investigated to determine various follow-up regulations at institutions in terms of development planning of entrepreneurship education and student business or start-up initiation. The objective of the present study was to figure the entrepreneurial characteristics out of students seen from three components: curiosity, innovation, and entrepreneurial commitment. The data from questionnaires distributed to students who participated in the recently customized entrepreneurship workshop hosted by a private university in West Java, Indonesia, and were interested in becoming entrepreneurs. Student participants were identified into two groups, those who already had businesses and those were not yet engaged in this field. The data analysis indicated that almost students have high entrepreneurial curiosity in the high category with the highest percentage being dominated by students who already have businesses. Moreover, student trait indicating entrepreneurship innovation was found to dominant in the medium category for these both aforementioned groups. The research also implies the academic need to develop curiosity, innovation, and entrepreneurial commitment in entrepreneurship education and student business development plans.