Abstract:

Being a business entrepreneur means being a part of the economic development of the nation. This is because the resulting businesses are employed, producing goods and services leading to the creation of a national gross domestic product. However, if students develop entrepreneurial skills early in their school years, it is inevitable that it is best to prepare qualified citizens of the state. Therefore, the purpose of this study was analysis the exploratory factor analysis affecting entrepreneurship characteristics for undergraduate students.The sample group was 1,000 students in Year 1-4 in Northeastern higher education institutions. Data is collected by multi-stage random sampling. The research instrument was the Student Entrepreneurship Qualification Questionnaire, which was a 5- level estimate of 69 items, with a confidence of 0.98 reliability. The statistics used for data analysis were descriptive statistics and Exploratory factory analysis by component extraction using principal component analysis (PCA) method, and modify orthogonal Components with Varimax Method.The results of the research were as follows: Survey Components: Student Entrepreneurial Characteristics consist of 6 main components as follows: Risk Taking, Innovativeness, Proactiveness, Autonomy, Need for Achievement, and self-confidence, which every Component has an Eigen Value greater than 1.00, all Component can describe the cumulative variance at 38.07%.and the results of the research show that the components influencing student entrepreneurship traits.

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