GUESSS National Report Italy 2018: Entrepreneurial intentions and behaviors of Italian University students

GUESSS (‘Global University Entrepreneurial Spirits Students Survey’) is an international research project aimed at tracking entrepreneurial intentions and activities of university students. In recent years, the publications based on GUESSS data in top entrepreneurship journals have rapidly grown, while the importance of the project in the academic community has increasingly been recognized. In Italy the survey has been coordinated by the Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) – University of Bergamo. This report describes data collected from the Italian sample, including students’ responses about entrepreneurial intentions, the number of active entrepreneurs and nascent entrepreneur as well as students’ socio-demographic background. The Italian survey collected 7,122 students’ responses, coming from 21 universities.