Motivational Factors Toward Entrepreneurial Intentions

Md Yusoff, Alia (2016) Motivational Factors Toward Entrepreneurial Intentions. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Engineering student’s willingness to engage in entrepreneurship may be affected by many different factors. Entrepreneurship intention is found to determine student’s willingness to engage into entrepreneurial behavior in future. Entrepreneurship is identified by many economists as a vital force in the purpose of industrialization in general and economic development in particular. The goals or objective for this project is to identify the external and internal motivation factors towards the intention to become entrepreneurs among UTeM engineering students and to determine the relationship between external and internal motivation factors and entrepreneurial intentions among UTeM engineering students. This study will be focused on the three needs that are the need for achievement, need for affiliation and need for power as the internal motivation factors. Whereas, the external motivation factors is focused on entrepreneurial role models, family background, and entrepreneurship education. The sample selected comprised of final year engineering students from five engineering faculties in University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) which are FKP, FKE and FKEKK at the main campus and FKM and FTK at the industrial campus. The data gathered were analyzed using descriptive analysis. The finding sees that there is a significant relationship between the external and internal motivation factors (independent variable) and entrepreneurial intentions among UTeM engineering students (dependent variable). But, there are two factors that insignificant which are the need for achievement and need for affiliation that has no effect on the entrepreneurial intentions.

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