Abstract
<p><em>Entrepreneurship among the youngsters </em><em>in</em><em> Malaysia is expected to spice-up the existing socio-economic development momentum. Many initiatives have been introduced to spur the entrepreneurship spirit among the youngsters. This research focuses on the attitude and intention of the youngsters in becoming entrepreneurs. A cross-sectional research was conducted to determine the attitude and intention of the youngsters to be an entrepreneur using a survey questionnaire. Descriptive and correlation analyses were conducted using 425 data that were collected from students who have taken the entrepreneurship course at the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia. It is found that the youngsters have a positive attitude and intention towards entrepreneurship. Further findings also highlight that the positive attitude influences the positive intention for the youngsters to venture into entrepreneurship. Shaping the attitude and intention through the basic entrepreneurship knowledge that can be learned from formal education is expected to become an entrepreneurial engine to drive the economic development for the nation.</em></p>
Highlights
Entrepreneurship is an act of creating a business to earn a profit (Ferreira, 2018)
Entrepreneurship refers to those people who are willing to take a risk by venturing into a new business
This research has proven that the majority of youngsters have a positive attitude and intention to become entrepreneurs
Summary
Entrepreneurship is an act of creating a business to earn a profit (Ferreira, 2018). Entrepreneurship is a very common word that is used to enhance the socioeconomic level because the activities do not just benefit a specific individual but the local community. There is no standardized definition concerning the term entrepreneurship since the definition is continuously being redefined to meet the continuous changes from the modern industrial revolution. Entrepreneurship refers to those people who are willing to take a risk by venturing into a new business. Most developing countries, including Malaysia, emphasize entrepreneurship activities among the local communities as a means to alleviate poverty (Al-Haj, 2016) and unemployment (Othman and Othman, 2017) by producing job security (Tyszka, Cieślik, Domurat and Macko, 2011) through selfemployment (Chea, 2015). There is a belief that entrepreneurship is one of the ways to reduce the socio-economic gap among the different ethnicities
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