Personality traits of techno-entrepreneurial engineers in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Personality traits of entrepreneurs is a research domain which has been already established in both local and international contexts. Although techno entrepreneurship is emerging as an important sector of entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka, scholars have not yet done systematic academic researches focusing only on techno-entrepreneurial engineers in Sri Lanka. Therefore, this research tries to ascertain the personality traits of techno-entrepreneurial chartered engineers in Sri Lanka. This is based on a preliminary stage of an ongoing qualitative exploratory research. Following an in-depth interview approach, this paper ascertains the personality traits of techno-entrepreneurial engineers which cause their success as perceived by themselves. This research reveals three categories of personality traits as entrepreneurial traits, ethical traits and engineering traits. The outcomes of this research is definitely a guide for engineering academics to disseminate among undergraduate and graduate-level engineers to adopt. That will facilitate the emergence of more and more successful technoentrepreneurial engineers in the Sri Lankan industrial sector.