The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurial aptitudes, the need of getting higher income and lifestyle on the desirability of starting a business. In the theory and hypothesis section, the principal factors associated with the entrepreneurial desirability are indicated. After that, the overview of entrepreneurship in Vietnam is presented. | Exploring factors affecting entrepreneurial desirability among Vietnam students International Journal of Data and Network Science 4 2020 105 114 Contents lists available at GrowingScience International Journal of Data and Network Science homepage ijds Exploring factors affecting entrepreneurial desirability among Vietnam students Le Thi Loana Vu Quangb Dinh Manh Tuanc Vu Trong Nghiad and Duong Cong Doanhd a PhD candidate National Economics University Vietnam b Hanoi Pedagogical University 2 Vietnam c Institute for European Studies Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Vietnam d National Economics University Vietnam CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Even though nowadays the concept of entrepreneurship has become popular in Vietnam there are Received January 18 2020 a few researches on starting up a business and the factors effect on the desirability of becoming Received in revised format Febru- an entrepreneur. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurial aptitudes ary 29 2020 the need of getting higher income and lifestyle on the desirability of starting a business. In the Accepted February 29 2020 Available online February 29 theory and hypothesis section the principal factors associated with the entrepreneurial desirability 2020 are indicated. After that the overview of entrepreneurship in Vietnam is presented. In addition Keywords by collecting data from 289 students in Vietnam authors used quantitative analyses by some tools The intention of starting a busi- such as such as descriptive statistics factor analysis ANOVA test and linear regressions to test ness the hypothesis of the relationship between entrepreneurial aptitudes the need of getting higher Lifestyle income and lifestyle with entrepreneurial desirability. As a result all three independent variables Entrepreneurial aptitudes positively affect the Vietnamese students desirability of starting a business. Specially the need of increasing income is seen as
