Entrepreneurial Passion

Entrepreneurial passion is experienced through strong emotions and motivations that are intertwined closely with an individual’s entrepreneurial identity and originates from engagement with self-defining activities over time.

Inventor

It is exciting to figure out new ways to solve unmet market needs that can be commercialized.

Searching for new ideas for products/services to offer is enjoyable to me.

I am motivated to figure out how to make existing products/services better.

Scanning the environment for new opportunities really excites me.

Inventing new solutions to problems is an important part of who I am.

Founder

Establishing a new company excites me.

Owning my own company energizes me.

Nurturing a new business through its emerging success is enjoyable.

Being the founder of a business is an important part of who I am.

Developer

I really like finding the right people to market my product/service to.

Assembling the right people to work for my business is exciting.

Pushing my employees and myself to make our company better motivates me.

Nurturing and growing companies is an important part of who I am.

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To ensure proper attribution of the questions used in our assessment, please note the following sources:

Question 1-13: Cardon, M. S.; Gregoire, D. A.; Stevens, C. E.; Patel, P. C. (2013). Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation. Journal of Business Venturing, 28(3), 373-396.