The impact of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial motivation among university student

Bonasir, Nur Suhaida (2020) The impact of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial motivation among university student. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In Malaysia, the twenty-first century saw the entrepreneurial education has leading to the economic growth of a newly emerging knowledge-based economy. Unfortunately, Malaysia has a high unemployment rate among young university graduates. Based on Department of Statistics in Malaysia, it illustrate that the percentage of unemployment rate increased from 3.3% in May, 2018 to 3.4% in April, 2019. This issue has triggered efforts by the Malaysian government to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy, where one of the key elements was ‘Entrepreneur’. One of the government’s challenges is how to change student’s mindset to venture into business rather than looking for jobs. This study examines the impact of entrepreneurial education among UTeM’s students in developing entrepreneurial motivation. The examination of concepts and conceptualizations of the theories in the literature allowed a theoretical framework to identify the research questions and the research gap. The research design was based on a theorical framework, the independent variable of entrepreneurship education, including entrepreneurship curricula, teaching methodologies and universities roles in promoting entrepreneurship, to test the dependent variable of entrepreneurial motivation. A preliminary survey questionnaire was developed and pre-tested with all the student from all the faculty in UTeM to validate the variables and to make sure the questionnaire was in line with the responses requested. Based on the findings, entrepreneurial education which are entrepreneurial curricula, teaching methodologies and university roles have positively impact to entrepreneurial motivation. The findings of this research proposed recommendations and suggestions for further research as necessary and appropriate to explore entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial motivation.

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