Conditions of individual entrepreneurship in the opinion of the inhabitants of Lublin

The article discusses issues related to individual entrepreneurship. It is conditioned by a series of external (economic, political-legal, socio-cultural) and internal (individual characteristics) factors. The results of research conducted on the group of inhabitants of Lublin were presented in order to determine the factors which facilitated and hindered the establishment of one's own company. Starting up individual business activity is mainly facilitated by internal factors, while external factors make this process difficult.