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Business Startup in Iran: Entrepreneurial Skills, Personality, and Motivation of Iranian Nascent Entrepreneurs

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Nowadays, numerous businesses are annually started up by the Iranian nascent entrepreneurs who have the required entrepreneurial skills, personality, and motivation. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2013 data, 75% of Iranian early stage entrepreneurs are nascent entrepreneurs whose average age is 32 and 73% of them are male. Most of nascent entrepreneurs (approximately 66%) are opportunity-based entrepreneurs versus 34% of them who are necessity-based entrepreneurs. Furthermore, 43% of Iranian nascent entrepreneurs believe that there will be good opportunities for starting a business in the next six months in the area where you live; meanwhile 83% of them have the knowledge, skill and experience that is necessary to start a new business. Accordingly, 67% of Iranian nascent entrepreneurs are risk takers (no fear of failure) and 48% of them know someone personally who started a business in the past two years. However, multi-regression results show that the entrepreneurial skills of Iranian nascent entrepreneurs, and not their personality, can affect the entrepreneurial motivation (19%). It means that nascent entrepreneurs who have more entrepreneurial skills start up their businesses based on entrepreneurial opportunities recognition rather than a necessity option. Therefore, entrepreneurship education programs should be formed to empower entrepreneurial skills such as capabilities of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and business startup on potential entrepreneurs.

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    Mohammad Reza Zali & Atieh Sadat Chaychian

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Zali, M.R., Chaychian, A.S. (2017). Business Startup in Iran: Entrepreneurial Skills, Personality, and Motivation of Iranian Nascent Entrepreneurs. In: Rezaei, S., Dana, LP., Ramadani, V. (eds) Iranian Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50639-5_4

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