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Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.

New conceptualizations were introduced to address the emerging need to develop innovativeness and creativity attitudes in future engineering professional . Thus, entrepreneurial engineering education needs an environment where future engineers can be formed through practical learning and the intera...

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Main Authors: Jusoh, Rosnani, Hussain, Afifuddin Husairi, Abdul Rahman, Fadzilah, Che Ani, Adi Irfan, Hussin, Haziyah
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Published: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2013
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spelling my.upm.eprints.290672015-10-05T07:28:45Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29067/ Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur. Jusoh, Rosnani Hussain, Afifuddin Husairi Abdul Rahman, Fadzilah Che Ani, Adi Irfan Hussin, Haziyah New conceptualizations were introduced to address the emerging need to develop innovativeness and creativity attitudes in future engineering professional . Thus, entrepreneurial engineering education needs an environment where future engineers can be formed through practical learning and the interaction with forces, ideas and inspirations, in the final perspective of effectively identifying, acquiring, developing, and transferring technology into new business products and services. This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur for engineering students. A questionnaire was used to measure the level of entrepreneurial competencies. The questionnaire was based on the Personal Entrepreneurial Competence Model, developed by McClelland Individual. Participants were recruited from the final year students of eight programs under the Faculty of Engineering. Of the 432 questionnaires distributed, 210 were collected back, giving a response rate of approximately 49%. Findings suggest that final year engineering students have respectable entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors, and are competent to be engineerpreneur. The study also recommended that we need an environment that does not insist that engineers become entrepreneurs, but one where the two can meet, and business leaders can organize our nation effectively. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29067/1/Towards%20creating%20a%20nation%20of%20engineerpreneur.pdf Jusoh, Rosnani and Hussain, Afifuddin Husairi and Abdul Rahman, Fadzilah and Che Ani, Adi Irfan and Hussin, Haziyah (2013) Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur. International Journal of Social, Management, Economics and Business Engineering, 7 (10). pp. 1537-1540. https://www.waset.org/Publications/?path=Publications&p=82 English
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description New conceptualizations were introduced to address the emerging need to develop innovativeness and creativity attitudes in future engineering professional . Thus, entrepreneurial engineering education needs an environment where future engineers can be formed through practical learning and the interaction with forces, ideas and inspirations, in the final perspective of effectively identifying, acquiring, developing, and transferring technology into new business products and services. This paper aims to investigate the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur for engineering students. A questionnaire was used to measure the level of entrepreneurial competencies. The questionnaire was based on the Personal Entrepreneurial Competence Model, developed by McClelland Individual. Participants were recruited from the final year students of eight programs under the Faculty of Engineering. Of the 432 questionnaires distributed, 210 were collected back, giving a response rate of approximately 49%. Findings suggest that final year engineering students have respectable entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors, and are competent to be engineerpreneur. The study also recommended that we need an environment that does not insist that engineers become entrepreneurs, but one where the two can meet, and business leaders can organize our nation effectively.
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author Jusoh, Rosnani
Hussain, Afifuddin Husairi
Abdul Rahman, Fadzilah
Che Ani, Adi Irfan
Hussin, Haziyah
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Hussain, Afifuddin Husairi
Abdul Rahman, Fadzilah
Che Ani, Adi Irfan
Hussin, Haziyah
Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
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Hussain, Afifuddin Husairi
Abdul Rahman, Fadzilah
Che Ani, Adi Irfan
Hussin, Haziyah
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title Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
title_short Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
title_full Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
title_fullStr Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
title_full_unstemmed Towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
title_sort towards creating a nation of engineerpreneur.
publisher World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
publishDate 2013
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29067/1/Towards%20creating%20a%20nation%20of%20engineerpreneur.pdf
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