TY - JOUR KW - Education KW - Happiness KW - Well-being KW - Entrepreneurship AU - José Manuel Sáiz-Álvarez AU - Alicia Corduras Martínez AU - Carlos Cuervo-Arango Martínez AB - The Economics of Happiness is one of the research areas of greatest growth in recent years. Throughout this work, a venture based model in which satisfaction of Spanish entrepreneurs with their professional life is performed. We analyze the responses of 9,989 entrepreneurs using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), and six hypothesis are discussed. The results show that, for the Spanish case, there is a strong consistency in the results the opportunity entrepreneurs present greater satisfaction than necessity entrepreneurs. IS - Special Issue on AI Techniques to Evaluate Economics and Happines M1 - 5 N2 - The Economics of Happiness is one of the research areas of greatest growth in recent years. Throughout this work, a venture based model in which satisfaction of Spanish entrepreneurs with their professional life is performed. We analyze the responses of 9,989 entrepreneurs using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), and six hypothesis are discussed. The results show that, for the Spanish case, there is a strong consistency in the results the opportunity entrepreneurs present greater satisfaction than necessity entrepreneurs. PY - 2014 SP - 38 EP - 47 T2 - International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence TI - An Entrepreneurial Well-being Model based on GEM Data for Spain UR - http://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/files/2014/03/ijimai20142_5_5_pdf_26415.pdf VL - 2 SN - 1989-1660 ER -