This study focusses on identifying factors that affect entrepreneur intention of Higher Education Institute (HEI) students between M40 family and T20 family in Melaka. Several factors such as initiative, seek on opportunities, act on opportunities, information seeking, concern for high quality of work, commitment to work contract, efficiency orientation, systematic planning, problem solving, self-confidence and assertiveness are tested the correlation with entrepreneur intention. A total of 159 respondent from M40 and T20 family around HEI in Melaka were collected to give their response. A structured questionnaire is used to collect data, and Google Form Apps is used to deliver the questionnaire to responders. The descriptive analysis takes into account both groups' entrepreneur intention levels and entrepreneur intention-related hypotheses were likewise evaluated. The results of the study indicate that entrepreneurial competencies have a significant relationship towards entrepreneurial intention of students from families M40 and T20. The results also show that, among all the characteristics there are two dominant factors that influence entrepreneur intention. As conclusion, the university can focus to the dominant factors to encourage entrepreneur intention among them.
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