IPCA’s Student Entrepreneurial Profile from the 6th Edition of Master on Bussiness Organizational Management

Teresa Maria Leitão Dieguez

Teresa Maria Leitão Dieguez Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave & Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Abstract

The success of small and medium enterprises largely depends on the human capital of their entrepreneurs. Many authors and researchers defend that the success of an entrepreneur is correlated to his profile, but there is no consensus about the degree among various characteristics inherent to an entrepreneur. The present study is based on primary data collected directly from 15 Master’s degree students on Business Organizational Management in the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA), Portugal, during 2014/2015. Descriptive statistic was used to summarize the data and present a simple model to evaluate entrepreneurial profile of students and highlight strategy to (re)define curricula.

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