現今台灣創業活動的蓬勃發展已成為實務界與學術界關注探討的焦點，然目前國內外對於創業之機會確認及其影響因素的相關研究甚少，爰此本研究主旨在探究機會確認在創業家人格特質、先驗知識及創業績效之間的中介效果。以中小企業的創業家為施測目標，透過便利抽樣方法及實體問卷發放方式，進行樣本收集。共計發出250份問卷，回收129份，回收率為51.6%，剔除其中兩份嚴重漏答的問卷，最後得到有效問卷為127份。
本研究採用階層迴歸分析為分析工具，獲致主要實證結果為：(1)創業家人格特質與創業的機會確認具有正向關聯；(2)創業家先驗知識與創業的機會確認具有正向關聯；(3)創業家的機會確認能力與創業績效具正向關聯；(4)機會確認會中介創業家的人格特質與創業績效之關係；(5)機會確認會部份中介創業家的專業知識與創業績效之關係，而機會確認會完全中介特殊產業知識、創業知識與創業績效之關係。

The vigorous development on entrepreneurial issue already has gained increasing attention from scholars and practices, however, the issue that related opportunity identification has rarely evidence in the past research, therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship which mediating effect of opportunity identification between personality traits and prior knowledge on entrepreneurial performance. The data were collected from entrepreneurs of small & medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed this way and 127 valid response obtained.
The article performed hierarchical regression analyses to test the hypotheses, obtained some major findings: (1) personality traits were positively related to opportunity identification. (2) prior knowledge was positively related to opportunity identification.(3) opportunity identification was positively related to t entrepreneurial performance.(4) opportunity identification was full mediated the relationship between personality and entrepreneurial performance.(5) opportunity identification was partial mediated the relationship between professional knowledge and entrepreneurial performance, opportunity identification was full mediated the relationship between industry-specific knowledge, entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial performance.

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