Government institutions, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship education programmes in Malaysia

Looi, Kim Hoe; Maritz, Alex

doi:10.1108/et-07-2020-0217

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“…Governments and ecosystem stakeholders can contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial university in many ways. For example, government financial assistance might be offered to those institutions reaching specific benchmarks in their progress towards becoming entrepreneurial universities, similar to what has been implemented in Malaysia (Looi and Maritz, 2021). From an industry perspective, industry accelerators may be closely aligned with entrepreneurship education initiatives at universities within the entrepreneurial ecosystems (Metcalf et al, 2020).…”

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“…Similarly, the importance of government interventions and enhancements to shaping the entrepreneurial university and associated entrepreneurship education requires particular contextualisation. For example, Looi and Maritz (2021) found that the emergence and proliferation of entrepreneurship education programs in Malaysia were directly related to the influence of and initiatives provided by the government.…”

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Entrepreneurship imperatives in higher education institutions: The case of Australian universities

Nguyen

Maritz

Millemann

2021

Industry and Higher Education

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Earlier research has not explicitly emphasised the dynamic integration of entrepreneurship imperatives and transformation in developing the entrepreneurial university. The purpose of this research is to examine the linkage between the strategic intents articulated by universities and their corresponding level of entrepreneurship transformation. This article develops a theoretical framework to examine transformational imperatives, applying a data analytical approach to assess strategic documents using automated content analysis and complex algorithms. Australian universities were chosen for the research given the specific context of the higher education sector and the availability of strategic documents on the institutions’ websites. In the research context, the findings show that, while there are some variances with specific institutions, Australian universities in general, and several groups of universities in particular, expressed different levels of determination, ranging from moderate to moderately strong, to transform themselves into being entrepreneurial. Universities’ management can benefit from the theoretical framework developed in this research to craft strategies to further adopt entrepreneurship imperatives. Implications are also provided to inform universities, industry and government with regard to enhancing the dynamics of entrepreneurship ecosystems.

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Entrepreneurship imperatives in higher education institutions: The case of Australian universities

Nguyen

Maritz

Millemann

2021

Industry and Higher Education

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“…We furthermore included integration from leading best practice EE scholars, allowing contextualisation of global entrepreneurship imperatives, recency of EE programs, together with the emerging scholarship of EE across the globe (Kuratko and Morris, 2018;Looi and Maritz, 2021).…”

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A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education

Waal

Maritz

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this practitioner paper is to explore whether the principles of Design Thinking and the Lean Startup could be employed in developing a disruptive model for delivering educational programs within higher education in a way that attempts to eliminate the multitude of problems facing this industry, while simultaneously adhering to the principles of frugal innovation and meeting relevant sustainability goals.Design/methodology/approachThe authors followed a design thinking approach, employing tools such as empathy mapping, customer journey, value proposition and semi-structured interviews to obtain a deep level of understanding of the problems educators and students within the context of entrepreneurship education are facing. Throughout the process they drew on the practice of emergent inquiry and customer co-creation to help guide decision making.FindingsThe authors successfully derived a conceptual solution in the form of a Minimum Viable Product of which the features were tested against the multitude of user needs and requirements. It was possible to demonstrate how the solution meets all nine of the requirements for frugal innovations while simultaneously adhering to applicable sustainability principles.Practical implicationsThe proposed solution offers a potential opportunity to first-movers in chosen academic disciplines to become leaders in online education.Originality/valueEven in an industry such as higher education there is a dire need for frugality and finding sustainable solutions for educators and students in both developed and developing markets. With this paper the authors succeed in presenting innovative combinations of digital artefacts, platforms and infrastructure to arrive at a novel crowd-sourced solution that is unique in its design.

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“…We test our proposed hypotheses using university students from three private Malaysian universities. We focussed on private universities in Malaysia for the following reasons Firstly, as a middle-income economy, Malaysia has a vibrant university sector (Looi and Maritz, 2021), thus competition among universities for students is relatively high, with many institutions choosing to differentiate themselves from others by offering unique programmes for students. Secondly, the Malaysian Government efforts at developing entrepreneurial ecosystems, have led many institutions to create entrepreneurial support structures aimed at promoting entrepreneurship as a career choice among students (Ahmad and Buchanan, 2015).…”

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University’s support for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of entrepreneurial climate

Sim

Galloway

Ramos

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Purpose Drawing on institutional theory, this paper seeks to untangle the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Specifically, this study aims to examine whether entrepreneurial climates within universities mediate the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and students’ entrepreneurial intention. Design/methodology/approach Empirical data is drawn from 195 students across three Malaysian higher education institutions. Partial least squares procedures are used to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings Findings show that no element of university support for entrepreneurship had a direct effect on students’ entrepreneurial intentions. However, the entrepreneurial climate was found – to mediate the relationship between perceived business and concept development support and students’ entrepreneurial intentions. Originality/value This study represents one of the few efforts in the literature considering the role of entrepreneurial climates within universities in influencing students’ entrepreneurial intention. In considering the mediating role of entrepreneurial climate, in the relationship between university support for entrepreneurship and students’ entrepreneurial intentions, this study provides a complementary and contextualised perspective, to existing studies, which have traditionally focussed on the mediating role of individual attributes. Doing so provides further evidence of entrepreneurial universities in fostering entrepreneurship.

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Government institutions, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship education programmes in Malaysia

Cited by 18 publications

References 51 publications

Entrepreneurship imperatives in higher education institutions: The case of Australian universities

Entrepreneurship imperatives in higher education institutions: The case of Australian universities

A disruptive model for delivering higher education programs within the context of entrepreneurship education

University’s support for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of entrepreneurial climate

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