CORREIA SANTOS , Susana

The present study proposes an entrepreneurial potential theoretical model and scale. Connecting the previous research evidences from entrepreneurs' literature, we define entrepreneurial potential as the individuals' readiness to engage on entrepreneurship typical activities, and we propose that the entrepreneurial potential includes four...

Entrepreneurship"s research field focuses on how, by whom and by what means business opportunities are discovered, evaluated and exploited (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Baum, Frese, Baron & Katz, 2007). In this study we intend to understand how individuals use the business opportunity prototype (Baron and Ensley, 2006), in different stages of...