Entrepreneurial Motivation: The Example of Applied Entrepreneurship Training Participants

While the impact of entrepreneurship on innovation, job creation or economic growth is important, explaining the reasons for the desire to become an entrepreneur at the individual level and the associated facts may provide an important contribution to understand the processes of entrepreneurship. In this study, entrepreneurship motivation is examined in order to develop a more detailed understanding of entrepreneurship processes. Based on the basic assumption that motivation sets individuals into motion, 589 entrepreneur candidates participating in KOSGEB Applied Entrepreneurship Trainings were interviewed face-to-face and entrepreneurship motivation of entrepreneur candidates was explained. In the study, the findings on the relationship between economic, entrepreneurial, social, work and individualism dimensions of entrepreneurship motivation in terms of selected variables such as income, gender, experience and education were discussed and interpreted