Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution
Entrepreneurship creates wealth and reduces unemployment. Entrepreneurs contribute to industrialisation as well as to economic growth; they improve living standards and tax revenues from their enterprises contribute to a nation' s treasury. Not surprisingly, then, governments have been spending...
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| description | Entrepreneurship creates wealth and reduces unemployment. Entrepreneurs contribute to industrialisation as well as to economic growth; they improve living standards and tax revenues from their enterprises contribute to a nation' s treasury. Not surprisingly, then, governments have been spending considerable sums trying to create entrepreneurs. With this changing and approach, young graduates may face the opportunities to self-employment, of which the approach implies greater scope for entrepreneurial activity. This articles discusses entrepreneurship education and draws on primary research into students attitudes to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurships. A total of 300 questionaires were collected from the respondents. The results showed that entrepreneurship education should be incorporated into the non-business degree programmes and entrepreneurship as a career should be encourage on career choice specially for the technical degree programmes. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-128392011-07-04T01:26:58Z http://eprints.utm.my/12839/ Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution Baharun, Rohaizat HD28 Management. Industrial Management Entrepreneurship creates wealth and reduces unemployment. Entrepreneurs contribute to industrialisation as well as to economic growth; they improve living standards and tax revenues from their enterprises contribute to a nation' s treasury. Not surprisingly, then, governments have been spending considerable sums trying to create entrepreneurs. With this changing and approach, young graduates may face the opportunities to self-employment, of which the approach implies greater scope for entrepreneurial activity. This articles discusses entrepreneurship education and draws on primary research into students attitudes to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurships. A total of 300 questionaires were collected from the respondents. The results showed that entrepreneurship education should be incorporated into the non-business degree programmes and entrepreneurship as a career should be encourage on career choice specially for the technical degree programmes. Intellectual Property Publ House 2008 Book Section PeerReviewed Baharun, Rohaizat (2008) Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution. In: Proceedings of Academy of Innovation And Entrepreneurship 2008. Intellectual Property Publ House, China, pp. 339-343. ISBN 978-7-80247-039-2 |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Baharun, Rohaizat Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| title | Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| title_full | Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| title_fullStr | Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| title_short | Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| title_sort | exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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