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如果您曾经看过ABC的鲨鱼坦克,您可能听说其中一位投资者说:“我认为您真的很聪明,有个好主意,但是您是发明家 - 不是一个entrepreneur。”

无论您是否喜欢鲨鱼坦克作为一种娱乐形式,我认为这两个角色的分离,即发明家vs Interapreneur,都提出了一个有趣的问题:什么使某人成为“企业家”?
随着Kickstarter和Indiegogo等众筹平台的兴起,企业家精神是越来越多的人的一条途径 - 如果您有个好主意,则可以将其带入大众。
But does entrepreneurial potential perhaps presuppose more than just a great idea and a desire to see that idea come to fruition?
伦敦大学的研究人员认为。
I recently came across an interesting test of entrepreneurialism developed by 2 psychologists from the University of London, in which they identify 4 dimensions of entrepreneurial potential:
1. Entrepreneurial Awareness
The entrepreneurial awareness scale assesses your ability to spot economically and socially valuable opportunities. There are a 4 sub-factors that come into play here:
- Access: Do you have access to the information necessary to help you identify opportunities?
- 理解: Armed with the right information, do you have the understanding required to recognize those opportunities as valuable?
- Memory and organization:您是否能够以使您更加机敏的方式存储和组织有价值的信息?
- State of being:您是被动地等待机会走上路还是积极寻找它们?
It’s interesting to note that 2 of these factors relate more to personal opportunity than natural-born traits. In order to possess entrepreneurial awareness, you need to have access to the right information and you also need to have the knowledge, or education, required to turn that data into something useful.
2.机会主义
The second identified dimension is opportunism, defined as the tendency to exploit opportunities.
According to the research, different people will be more or less likely to exploit a given opportunity based on a few characteristics:
- 愿意裸露风险
- Optimism
- 自我效能
- 积极性
- Prior experience
但是,研究人员谨慎地注意,尽管这些属性增加了追求的可能性,但它们实际上并没有增加success。
3.企业家创造力
企业家创造力被定义为您提出新颖和有用的想法的能力。
我认为我们大多数人都会同意创造力是成功企业家精神的核心。您可以认识到一千个巨大的机会,并有狡猾的机会来利用它们,但是如果您没有提出创新的解决方案,那么您就没有太多了。
因此,研究表明,创造力与企业和组织开发的创新的数量和根本性密切相关。实际上,关于创造力与财务有关successof those innovations, but it’s the prerequisite of their existence.
4.需要进步
最后,进步量表的需求评估了您为自己和社会创造富有成效的变革和进步的动力。
Research has demonstrated that more ambitious and long-term growth goals are related to entrepreneurial activity. These types of goals can be things like:
- 组织变革率
- Increased business performance
- 对公司行使的控制量
Additionally, it’s been shown that elaborate and proactive planning predicts business size and the external evaluation of a business.

那么 - 这一切都付出了什么?通过回答与企业家潜力的这些方面有关的问题,您最终获得了“企业家的潜力得分”,该评分评估了“您的一般趋势和从事企业家行为的能力”。
(有趣的能力和趋势在这里发挥作用:您可能有能力,但也许不是倾向。)
经过测试之后,我的总分是79%,这表明我高度企业家(至少根据我自己的自我意识。),尽管我在前两个类别(企业家意识和机会主义)方面只得分平均得分。
似乎我对其他两个维度(企业家创造力和进步的需求)的特征倾向可以充分补偿我在企业家主义的其他两个维度中的相对无能。
这就是为什么我认为此信息很有价值的原因。
1. It’s important to separate creativity from entrepreneurialism as a piece of the whole.
It’s not enough to have a good idea. There are a multitude of factors that contribute to building and growing a successful business, and these dimensions provide some insight into what those factors are.
2. Self-awareness allows you to build your skills.
我相信可以学会许多(如果不是全部)这些维度,而不是有才华的。例如,测试中提到的技能,例如数据组织,发展长期与短期思维的态度,和even creativityI believe can all be learned.
因此,如果您想成为企业家精神,但发现自己缺乏一个或多个重要的维度,那么更高的自我意识将使您拥有成为希望成为的人所需的知识。
3.这是选择合适的联合创始人的宝贵信息。
如果您想建立自己的公司,那么更高的自我意识也将帮助您了解您的联合创始人应表现出最大的倾向,以帮助平衡自己的技能和个性特征。
你可以自己参加考试这里尽管我认为这项测试绝对是确定的判断,但它为与企业家主义相关的特征提供了一些关键的见解。