Factors Influencing UTeM Undergraduate Engineering Student’s Intention To Be Entrepreneurs

Nurul Afiqah, Ishek (2015) Factors Influencing UTeM Undergraduate Engineering Student’s Intention To Be Entrepreneurs. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

It has always been the interest of our government to promote entrepreneurship and new venture in business to enhance economic growth for the nation and creating jobs to help to solve the problem of unemployment. Regarding, the Research Institutes of Higher Education (IPPTN) in 2009 stated that the main cause of unemployment for graduates of technical and vocational fields is due to lack of skills they acquired during their studies. This problem occurs because of a lack of knowledge about one of the seven elements of the generic skills of entrepreneurial skills. Therefore, this research will be conducted among the undergraduate engineering students at several faculties in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) to find out their entrepreneurial intention. The objective of this research are to study the factors that influence the UTeM undergraduate engineering student’s intention to become entrepreneurs. Second, to identify the main factor that influence the UTeM undergraduate engineering student’s intention to become entrepreneurs. Besides that, this research adopted Theory of Planned Behaviour to test the relationship of the factors towards the UTeM undergraduate engineering student’s intention to become entrepreneurs. The research is based on explanatory research which is to identify the relationship between independent variable and dependent variable. The researcher use quantitative method by conducting a survey through the questionnaire and take a sample of 200 undergraduate engineering students as respondents at Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM).

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