Entrepreneurial Competencies of College Students: A Qualitative Analysis

The study, based on Behavioral Event Interview (BEI), has interviewed a total of 12 students or graduates who're starting an undertaking from 11 venture enterprises. Through coding analysis, the study finds that 7 dimensions of entrepreneurial competencies are the obvious performances of the student entrepreneurs. They are opportunity competency, relationship competency, resources integration competency, innovation competency, entrepreneurial aspiration competency, entrepreneurial perseverance competency, and entrepreneurial learning competency. On that basis, the future studies can develop measuring scale of the entrepreneurial competencies of college students to advance the related theories and empirical researches.