Creating an entrepreneurial Ecosphere within Higher Education Institutions: Towards a model of entrepreneurial university
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2015
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Ahmad, Noor Hazlina
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The ASEAN countries are progressing with tremendous opportunities and scopes emphasizing on the
knowledge economy. Such attempt has invigorated to find new avenues of implementing the concept of
entrepreneurial university. The main purpose of the study is to distinguish the Malaysian universities
which possess hard and soft elements of the entrepreneurial university. Further, the study attempted to
explore the possible significant differences in context of the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation
within the entrepreneurial university paradigm. Data were collected from the 536 faculty members of
the Malaysian universities and an independent sample t-test was conducted to identify the group
differences. The result has indicated that significant differences exist between the universities which
embrace hard and soft elements of the entrepreneurial university concept. The study will assist the
educationist and policy makers to way forward the concept of entrepreneurial university and become a
hub for the innovation and re ional develo ment.
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Entrepreneurial Ecosphere , Entrepreneurial University