Entrepreneurial Characteristics : A Survey Of FPTT's Students In Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)

Zainal Abidin, Farahana Aina (2014) Entrepreneurial Characteristics : A Survey Of FPTT's Students In Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship is defined by many economists as a driving force of industrialization in terms of general and economic development. The objective for this project is to see and identify the entrepreneurial characteristics and tendency a student to become an entrepreneur. This study focuses more on the six physiological characteristics; risk taking propensity, tolerance of ambiguity, locus of control, need for achievement, innovativeness and self-confidence. This study was conducted in University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) at city campus. The empirical test was carried out on the data collected from questionnaire by the sources from the internet and journal. From the result, researchers can identify that the fourth year’s students in Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship (FPTT) had a very high need for achievement, willing to be innovative, high risk taking propensity, high in self-confidence level, high of locus of control and moderate to tolerance for ambiguity. Other than that, from the result, researcher can identify that need for achievement, innovativeness, risk taking propensity, self-confidence and locus of control have a positive relationship with the tendency a student to become an entrepreneur. While only the characteristic of tolerance for ambiguity is not.

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