Instrument design and validation for measuring entrepreneurial competence

This work wants to specify preliminary data of the design process of an instrument adapted to a Spanish population based on different questionnaires to evaluate the attributes of entrepreneurial skills of university students, and to contribute a valid and reliable measure that serves as a reference for effective intervention programs in the university environment, and for the development of employability. The instrument provides students with the possibility of discovering their strengths and opportunities related to the sub-oompetences evaluated: the identification of opportunities, the development of innovative solutions, the ability to learn from failure, and their awareness of their entrepreneurship. An initial content validity study was carried out through the trial of 13 experts, all of them university professors expert of the subject, which determined the development of the questionnaire that was subsequently tested on a pilot sample of 350 students. It concludes to the suitability and usefulness of the instrument, and discusses the importance of the intervention for the development of entrepreneurial competence in the University.