Entrepreneurship motivation among UTM technical and non technical undergraduate students.
ABSTRACT This study examined the motivation for entrepreneurship among UTM technical and non-technical undergraduate students. Past literatures suggested that a student who is motivated for entrepreneurship will show stronger intention to start up own business or enterprise than an unmotivated s...
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/669/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
| Summary: | ABSTRACT
This study examined the motivation for entrepreneurship among UTM
technical and non-technical undergraduate students. Past literatures suggested that a
student who is motivated for entrepreneurship will show stronger intention to start up
own business or enterprise than an unmotivated student. Therefore, this study looked
at the four motivational factors: (1) Life experience, (2) Entrepreneurship education,
(3) Environment, and (4) Personal characteristics; to examine the level of motivation
among UTM students and to test whether there exist significant differences in
motivational level between UTM technical and non-technical students. The study
also focused on the issue of students’ intention to start up own business or enterprise.
Questionnaires were used to collect the data on students’ motivational and intention
level. Subsequently, Mann-Whitney U test was conducted to determine if any
significant differences exist on the motivational factors and intention level between
technical and non-technical students. The results of this study indicated that students
were motivated by life experience, entrepreneurship education, environment and
personal characteristics for entrepreneurship. No significant difference was found in
entrepreneurship education between technical and non-technical students for
entrepreneurship. However, significant differences were found in life experience,
environment and personal characteristics between technical and non-technical
students. Furthermore, students were also considering to start up own business or
enterprise. Several recommendations emerged from the analysis of the findings. It is
believed that these recommendations are useful for university, government as well as
public wishing to improve the development of entrepreneurs, especially among the
young ones.
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