Understanding the Relationships between Entrepreneurial Education, Entrepreneurial Implementation and Entrepreneurial Intention: An Empirical Investigation

Abstract

This research is conducted to reveal the effects of entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial implementation on entrepreneurial intention among students from the tertiery institution. To analyze this effects, participants from one tertiery institution located in the Northern of Malaysia have been taken as the sample of this research survey. Quantitative method is adopted, and this research received 96.7% responses out of 500 sample size. Findings of this research presented that there was significant effect of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention with β=.55, p=.00. The similar result is reported on the effect of entrepreneurial implementation on entrepreneurial intention with β=.52, p=.00. Thus, this instituion always have quest of finding the unique ways to enhance the students’ level of entrepreneurial intention. This research would help to suggest on how an adequate entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial implementation would help to increase the level of students’ entrepreneurial intention.