Personality and Entrepreneurial Behavior: Relations among Entrepreneurship-Relevant Traits and Entrepreneurial Status, Intentions, and Prior Venture Experiences

Increasing investments in incubators, accelerators, and academia coincide with current historical perceptions of the United States as a world leader creating new businesses, well an economic force dependent, part, on entrepreneurship. Research identifies various personality characteristics related to entrepreneurship, however, entrepreneur-specific measures have rarely been studied. This study investigates relationships between 11-factor Entrepreneur Core Characteristics Profile entrepreneurial outcomes sample including students, working adults, entrepreneurs. Results expand our understanding how may be useful for predicting outcomes, implications practitioners who work