Internationalising Higher Education

This poster presentation will discuss how the Universiti Malaysia Pahang is working to develop female 'technopreneurs', a term which refers to entrepreneurs in technology-based industries. They have used personality profiling analysis, conducted among female engineering undergraduates involving six dimensions, to decipher the potential for technopreneurship among female engineering undergraduates. The analysis showed that female engineering undergraduates possess strong entrepreneurial personalities and have great potential to become technopreneurs. Researchers have designed a course on technopreneurship for engineering undergraduates and a module for the delivery of the course, including the Ministry of Higher Education Soft-Skills Module launched in 2006 and other modules and short courses to nurture technopreneurship skills.