My Thesis

ABSTRACT

CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A TEST ON UNIMAS STUDENTS PERCEPTIONS

By

Rudy Bin Yulius Bata

2009

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the students’ perceptions towards entrepreneurship. In addition, the study also determines the level of university students interested in entrepreneurship and investigates the relationship between the pull and push factors towards interests in entrepreneurship. The scope of this research is toward university students’, which is among Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The results of Crosstabulation analysis shown that university students’ have high interests in entrepreneurship. Besides that, results of Pearson Correlation had shown that among the push and pull factors, only personal characteristics and experience have positively related with interests in entrepreneurship while others shows no relationship. When One-way ANOVA was carried out, the results shown that there are significant differences between the interest in entrepreneurship and gender.