Ozyilmaz, Adnan2024-09-192024-09-1920111741-8054https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2011.042761https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/14909Individuals' entrepreneurial intentions are the foundations of new-organisation creation. Using the demographic-characteristics approach of entrepreneurship as its basis, this study examines the effects of selected demographic characteristics on pre-venture entrepreneurial intentions. This study analysed the responses of 698 undergraduate university students to a questionnaire to test its hypotheses. Statistical analyses found significant and positive relationships between both being a male and having an entrepreneur-parent role-model and having entrepreneurial intentions for business-administration students, but the entrepreneur-parent role-model was the sole significant and positive predictor of engineering students' entrepreneurial intentions. Age was not a significant predictor of entrepreneurial intentions for undergraduate students. This study's findings do not support birth-order argument. Implications and future research directions are also discussed. Copyright © 2011 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessDemographic characteristicsEntrepreneurial intentionEntrepreneurshipPre-venture stage of entrepreneurshipArticle14340642410.1504/IJESB.2011.0427612-s2.0-80054950231Q3