Summary: | The measure of those factors related to entrepreneurship (as attitudes) is interesting for universities, credit companies and business incubators, because there’s various investigations that refers them as good behavior predictors. Thus, the aim of this current research was the design and validation of a scale to measure some attitudes related to entrepreneurship. A preliminary version of the questionnai-re, with 104 items, was elaborated; those items was built starting from the theoretical definition of the variables Perceived self-efficacy, Innovation, Risk and Activities related to entrepreneurship. 189 per-sons constituted the sample (age range: 17 to 90 years old, 98 men and 91 women). The factorial analysis decided the presence of 10 factors, of which just 5 was reported because their internal consistency value was above .70. The final labels that name those 5 factors are Trend to entrepreneurial activities, Perception of inefficiency, Risk aver-sion, Risk propensity and Tendency to changes. Such factors included a final set of 30 items, which Cronbach alpha reach a value of .861.
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