A UNIVERSITY STUDENT’S ENTREPRENEURIAL PROPENSITY IN MALAYSIA

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is consideredas the major economic development strategies to maintain competitiveness and promote national economic growth in facing the growing trend of globalization. The entrepreneurial propensity of university students may be affected by various factors. The main purpose of this research is to comprehend how innovation, risk-taking propensity, family background and entrepreneurship education affect the entrepreneurial propensity of university students.

The basic data for this study were collected by issuing 384 questionnaires to respondents from several universities in Malaysia. And then perform reliability tests on each variable to ensure high reliability results. The Regression Analysis and Pearson Correlation Coefficient would be used for research to analysis independent variables (innovation, risk-taking propensity, family background and entrepreneurship education).

Entrepreneurial propensity has an important relationship with all variables. The test of independent sample is use to analysis the individual information (i.e. family background and gender differentiation) of respondents and dependent variable (i.e. entrepreneurship propensity). The implications, findings of study, recommendations and limitations for future study are discussed at the end of the research.