Student’s Creativity in Entrepreneurship

Type Journal Article - Review of Integrated Business and economics
Title Student’s Creativity in Entrepreneurship
Author(s)
Volume 3
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://sibresearch.org/uploads/2/7/9/9/2799227/riber_b14-095_160-168.pdf
Abstract
This study aims to reveal the degree of student creativity in entrepreneurship and the dominant factors affecting student creativity in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship skills should be developed since a person is still young. The times of going to college is considered an appropriate time to develop entrepreneurial skills. Padang State Polytechnic has a program to enhance the entrepreneurial skills by incorporating entrepreneurship courses in curriculum. This study was conducted to State Polytechnic of Padang students who have taken or are taking the course. Creativity measurement is performed with 75 questions from Princeton Creative Questionnaire. Those 75 questions then be extracted with factor analysis to determine which factors that influence student creativity in entrepreneurship. Based on statistical calculations, level of creativity of students stands at 3.51, it belonging to high level category. Dominant factors, that be obtained by using factor analysis are breaking the rules; positive attitute;and ability to channel stress as factors that encourage student creativity in entrepreneurship. The results of this study need to be discussed further with other studies of creativity in entrepreneurship. Thus the results of this study can contribute to the development of the concept of student entrepreneurship.

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