Abstract:

Considering that entrepreneurs have an important role in countries’ economic growth and development, factors determining to be an entrepreneur and motivations encouraging entrenpreneurship stand out as very important issues. However, it is difficult to say there are adequate researchs on this subject in especially Turkey. Thus, this study has desinged to investigate the reletionships between motivations for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intents of youngs with the potential to become entrepreneur in the future. The data was collected by means of a questionnaire created using the literature from young entrepreneur candidates studying at Aksaray University through random sampling and convenience sampling methods. The collected data were evaluated by descriptive statistics, factor analysis and correlation analysis. The findings pointed out positive relationships between motivations for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intents of youngs. Also, the results indicated that need of success and competition has taken first place among youngs and it was respectively followed by the social sensitivity orientation, need for approval, need for indepen-dence, innovation orientation, money-making orientation and the necessity perception.

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