The motivating factors influence the entrepreneurial intention among youth generation in Melaka

Koo, Weii Liang (2019) The motivating factors influence the entrepreneurial intention among youth generation in Melaka. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Entrepreneur is an individual whom created business and manage in more productive and innovative manner. Entrepreneurship is known as an important source of job growth and economic development of a country and the entrepreneur is the driving force behind the economic development of a countries. Hence, the entrepreneurial intention is the preliminary step in business propensity and driving an individual to become an entrepreneur. The main purpose of this research was to identify the motivating factors that influence the entrepreneurial intention among the youth generation in Melaka. There were the three motivating factors examined in this research which were Entrepreneurship Specific Education, Family Role and Personality Trait while Entrepreneurial Intention as dependent variable. In addition, researcher adopted descriptive research design to collect the data and information that will be useful for the researcher in studying the research objectives. There were 385 set of questionnaires distributed to the target respondents in Google Form. All the data collected were analysed by using SPSS software. Pearson Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis were conducted to study the relationship and correlation among the variables. The R-squared value on Model Summary represented that all three independent variables had strong positive impact toward entrepreneurial intention as 0.716 < 0.7. Moreover, the third research objective was achieved as the beta valued showed on the coefficient table indicated that personality trait was the strongest predictor for entrepreneurial intention. In the nutshell, the findings of this research can assist educational institutions especially Institute of Higher Education (IHE) to create and implement effective entrepreneurship development programs to cultivate the entrepreneurial mindset and motivate the youth to act to be a real entrepreneur.

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