Becoming an entrepreneur depends on numerous characteristics that influence individuals
on this specific research the focus is university students from Indonesia and United States. This
thesis focuses on entrepreneurial factors triggering people to start thinking and acting
entrepreneurially. The purpose is to investigate the relationship between the tendency to be
entrepreneur and selected entrepreneurial characteristics on university students in Indonesia and
in United States of America. Here, a closer look is taken on factors achievement motivation,
need for affiliation, locus of control, tolerance for ambiguity and fear of failure.
This research aims to identify the entrepreneurial characteristics of university students in
Indonesia and the United States. For this investigation, the researcher performed a quantitative
research using primary data collected with a five point Likert scale questionnaire. The data set
contains information of 300 university students from two different countries and is analyzed with
the statistical program SPSS. With this regard, we have studied the personal characteristics of
university students that affect their tendency to be entrepreneur and also a comparative study
about the personal characteristics of students in Indonesia and United States was conducted.