The Ffctors affecting entrepreneurial intentions of university students in Malaysia

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to corroborate the factors affecting entrepreneurial intentions of university students in Malaysia constructed on empirical reviews. In this study, general searches were conducted to accumulate empirical literatures by the name of Entrepreneurship Development, Entrepreneurship Education and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) in different online database sources such as Google Scholars, Springer Link, Wiley, Science Direct, JSTOR, Emerald full text, Scopus, and EBSCO HOST etc. This study found that innovation, entrepreneurship training & education, family background, government support program, social entrepreneurship, women participation, individual entrepreneurial characteristics, participation of micro, small & medium enterprises, youth empowerment, collaboration of governmentuniversity- industry is the key tool for entrepreneurship development. Stimulating employment will eventually help alleviating poverty. This study also found that there is a strong relation among students entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control. Moreover, the entrepreneurship teaching methodology has moderating effects on every relationship.