Revue internationale des sciences économiques et de gestion

The Young Engineers’ Entrepreneurial Triggering

Abstract

Ali Maalej 

The objective of this approach is to study the determinants of the entrepreneurial triggering for engineers who obtained their diplomas from the National School of Engineering of Sfax during the academic year 2012/2013. Three months are needed to collect our data from a questionnaire established and administered to all graduates through their emails. 665 graduates are aimed to study. However, only 84 who have not started a career in a liberal profession have responded to the questionnaire. In accordance with the literature presented, it is argued that entrepreneurial triggering is driven by entrepreneurial intent and external factors such as positive and negative displacements and inhibitors. A simple linear regression model accompanied with the ordinary least squares method is used to analyze the data. The findings show that there is a strong relationship between intent on the one hand and the onset of the entrepreneurial triggering on the other. It is also proved that external factors are likely to impact triggering occasionally at both the positive and the negative sides.