A study carried out at Laval University helped to determine the entrepreneurial potential on the campus and, at the same time, provided us with a better understanding of the students' needs and expectations with regard to entrepreneurship. The students were selected randomly from a complete list of the Laval University students. A total of 600 students were interviewed. We attempted to see, through this research, how the students' values, attitudes and behaviour, that is their entrepreneurial potential, could predispose them to founding a company, creating their own job or having the intention to do so. 1 Paper presented at the 2003 INTENT Conference, Grenoble, France, September 8-10, 2003 According to the data, approximately 3.2% of the students are presently involved in starting up a business. Moreover, it would seem that 32.5% of the students have already thought of starting up a business or one day being self-employed. Among these, 43% planned to do so more than five years after their studies, whereas 7.9% intended to do so during their studies. Our research was also aimed at determining the role that Laval University should play in supporting entrepreneurial students. Moreover, the results show that the respondents preferred certain methods for teaching entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the motivations behind wanting to start up a business were the desire to become their own boss (30%), followed by the wish to be self-sufficient and independent (14%). The main obstacle that kept the students from starting up a business or becoming self-employed was above all (45%) a lack of funds.