An Empirical Study on the Attitudes of Students towards Entrepreneurship

There is general agreement that attitudes towards the entrepreneur, entrepreneurial activity, and its social function are determinant factors for university students to decide an entrepreneurial career. This paper is focused on the informal factors and the empirical research presented has two main objectives - to probe students beliefs and attitudes toward new venture creation and the entrepreneur and to test six hypotheses with regard to two demographic variables associated with the principal aspects of the model applied. This empirical study aims at assessing the attitudes of students towards entrepreneurship and enterprise formation. The samples were selected through mixed random sampling method from students studying at a Private Higher Educational Institutions (UG and PG) in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh (India). The Primary Data was collected through questionnaire used in the present research contains questions pertaining to the entrepreneur’s image and the perception of new venture feasibility. The collected data was analyzed through MS Excel and ‘Statistical Package for Social Science’ software. Six hypotheses related to the mentioned aspects have been tested in this research. Results reveal a positive entrepreneur’s image and favorable perception of desirability of new venture creation, although the perception of feasibility is by far not so positive and only a small percentage has the firm intention to create a new company.