Enhancing creativity and innovation in technoprenership education / Nor Haryanti Md Nor … [et al.]

• Main Authors: Md Nor, Nor Haryanti, Nik Muhammad Naziman, Yusrina Hayati, Ab Rahman, Siti Maziah, Mohd Rashid, Siti Norbaya, Mohd Aznan, Nadia Farleena
• Format: Research Reports
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Business; Learning ability; Creative ability. Creative thinking
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/70344/2/70344.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/70344/

Technopreneurship education provides much ongoing interpretation and responsiveness among universities since its provides significant values of adventurous youth burning with energy, passion, creativity and intelligence. The creativity and innovation plays a crucial part in education process as it will precast the end result of developing the nations. Many universities have looked toward information technologies to assists them in making this transition and to obtain the flexibility necessary to educate well undergraduate into the future. Many universities have focused more enterpreneurship education and research involving academic staff and postgraduate students rather than undergraduate student technopreneurship. It is believed that UiTM is one of the few entrepreneurship universities which focus on undergraduate students, who, from enrollment to graduation, are offered constant encouragement, training and support for their efforts to conceive and start up business enterprises with prototype finding from them. This paper examines a factor required by the universities in bolstering the better prelude efforts towards the students in technopreneurship in indicating the competition, technology transfer/exchange students and university policy. This paper has brought to the fore the critical need for developing nations to realize and urgently begin to promote an appropriate technopreneurship as a way of life among its undergraduates. While the strength and growth of any economy is facilitated by the entrepreneurial culture and the versatility of its technical know-how, this paper focuses on the relevance of adopting technopreneurship as a way of societal development, thus establishing the inter-relationship between the management of universities and lecturers with the aims of enhancing proficiency in research and development in technopreneurship.