Application for mobile devices from the Inventory of Barriers and Facilitators to Entrepreneurship (IBFE). IBFE is a self-report psychometric test that maps behaviors and characteristics common among entrepreneurs, indicating the factors that inhibit (barriers) or trigger (facilitators) people entrepreneurship. Methodologically, the IBFE presents parameters of confirmatory factor validity and internal consistency, operationalized by a Likert-type scale of 5 continuous points [ranging from 0 = Does not describe me in absolute to 5 = describes me in total], composed of 8 independent factors , which measure the following facets of entrepreneurial behavior: (i) Intention to Entrepreneur; (ii) Risk; (iii) Access to Capital; (iv) Innovation; (v) Opportunity; (vi) Leadership and Management; (vii) Relationship Network; (viii) Passion. The operationalization of IBFE in an application for mobile devices aims to speed up the application of the instrument and allow a better and more practical way to tabulate and analyze the data. To compute and interpret the scores, the items corresponding to each factor are computed and the resulting sum divided by the number of items added together (arithmetic mean) - obtaining the average score for each of the factors.
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