SPUR Project

2008 Winner (2 of 15)

Validation of the General Enterprise Tendency (GET) Test with HIVE Programme Participants, NTU Undergraduate Students and NTU Staff from a Range of Academic Disciplines
Supervisors: Dr Glenn Williams (Psychology), Russell Kennard (The HIVE), Jayne Childs (The HIVE), Phil Clarke (The HIVE)

Entrepreneurship is rapidly becoming an area that is being increasingly valued as an activity needing further development among students and staff within the Higher Education (HE) sector nationally and in this University especially. However, the knowledge base on how to identify entrepreneurial tendencies, and how to cultivate them, is a still relatively new field and in need of stringent academic study. The science of how to measure entrepreneurship is still in its infancy and would benefit from interdisciplinary research drawing from expertise in the domains of psychometrics and business studies. The GET test is commonly used within entrepreneurship education to get potential entrepreneurs to reflect on their skills and their personality traits in relation to their ability to be enterprising. There has been some psychometric testing of the GET test although this has not been extensive and has involved research with relatively small samples. This project involved the student devising GET test questionnaires for circulation to participants in HIVE programmes, undergraduate students and staff. The student was then involved in analysing the returned questionnaires and reporting upon the findings.