Entrepreneurship is critical for the economy as entrepreneurship is an engine of economic progress, job creation as well as social adjustment. In Malaysian context, the role of entrepreneurship is critical as Malaysia has envisioned being a fully developed country by the year 2020. Further to this, entrepreneurial quality in student entrepreneurs is important to be studied as they can help in the survival as well as succession of the business. This paper aims to propose a simple yet comprehensive conceptual model by identifying the psychosocial factors that influenced the development of entrepreneurial quality among student entrepreneurs. An extensive review of literature available has been carried out to achieve the purpose. Several psychosocial factors namely, social support, university experience and mentoring are found to be the antecedents for entrepreneurial quality among student in Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Malaysia.
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