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Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions

Enterprise education generally promotes awareness of entrepreneurship in the form of business start-up and self-employment, as well as the usefulness of enterprise skills for competitiveness in the small and large organisations contexts. Specifically, entrepreneurial education is commonly perceived...

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Main Authors: Abdul Majid, Izaidin, Cooper, Sarah, Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi, Ismail, Kamariah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/11505/1/Full_paper_Dr_Izaidin_pdf.pdf
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spelling my.utem.eprints.115052023-05-29T15:40:30Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/11505/ Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions Abdul Majid, Izaidin Cooper, Sarah Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi Ismail, Kamariah H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) Enterprise education generally promotes awareness of entrepreneurship in the form of business start-up and self-employment, as well as the usefulness of enterprise skills for competitiveness in the small and large organisations contexts. Specifically, entrepreneurial education is commonly perceived as the process of training individuals to be able to recognize commercial opportunities and the insight, knowledge and related skills to act on them through the formation of a business venture. This paper explores issues pertaining to entrepreneurship education; Malaysia’s Public Higher Learning Institutions (PHLIs) students’ perception towards entrepreneurship education, the prevalence of business start-up tendencies and factors that encourage students to choose to become entrepreneurs upon finishing their studies at the university. The results reveal that a huge majority of the respondents are enthusiastic to the idea of starting their own business. “Attracted with success of other entrepreneurs”, seems to be the most agreed factors that encourage students to become entrepreneurs in future. 2010-06-28 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/11505/1/Full_paper_Dr_Izaidin_pdf.pdf Abdul Majid, Izaidin and Cooper, Sarah and Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi and Ismail, Kamariah (2010) Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions. In: Malaysian Technical Universities Conference on Engineering and Technology (MUCET), 28&29 June 2010, Melaka.
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language English
topic H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)
Abdul Majid, Izaidin
Cooper, Sarah
Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi
Ismail, Kamariah
Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
description Enterprise education generally promotes awareness of entrepreneurship in the form of business start-up and self-employment, as well as the usefulness of enterprise skills for competitiveness in the small and large organisations contexts. Specifically, entrepreneurial education is commonly perceived as the process of training individuals to be able to recognize commercial opportunities and the insight, knowledge and related skills to act on them through the formation of a business venture. This paper explores issues pertaining to entrepreneurship education; Malaysia’s Public Higher Learning Institutions (PHLIs) students’ perception towards entrepreneurship education, the prevalence of business start-up tendencies and factors that encourage students to choose to become entrepreneurs upon finishing their studies at the university. The results reveal that a huge majority of the respondents are enthusiastic to the idea of starting their own business. “Attracted with success of other entrepreneurs”, seems to be the most agreed factors that encourage students to become entrepreneurs in future.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abdul Majid, Izaidin
Cooper, Sarah
Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi
Ismail, Kamariah
author_facet Abdul Majid, Izaidin
Cooper, Sarah
Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi
Ismail, Kamariah
author_sort Abdul Majid, Izaidin
title Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
title_short Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
title_full Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
title_fullStr Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
title_full_unstemmed Entrepreneurship education and training in Malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
title_sort entrepreneurship education and training in malaysia’s public higher learning institutions
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/11505/1/Full_paper_Dr_Izaidin_pdf.pdf
http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/11505/
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