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Relationship Between Entreprenurial Education and Intention to Start a Business in Bahrain

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Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Society 5.0

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Entrepreneurial education is one of main enabler on intention to start up a business. Entrepreneurial education has the dimensions; Formal Learning (FL), Professional Learning and Development (PLD), Social Learning (SL) and Practical Learning (PL). Convenience sampling technique by a questionnaire survey of 148 respondents. Respondents are current entrepreneurs in Bahrain from various sectors. A quantitative approach used; Descriptive analysis, Reliability, Pearson Correlation, and Multiple Regression. Findings indicate that Social Learning (SL) and Practical Learning (PL) has a positive relationship on intention to start up a business. Managerial implications; give insights to educational and commercial sector (governmental and non-governmental) on adding and enhancing entrepreneurial education especially in Social Learning (SL) and Practical Learning (PL). Theoretically this paper adds to the literature on the importance of Entrepreneurial Education. Limitations of the study, small sample size of respondents, convenience sampling and cross-sectional study done. Recommendations for future studies are to have a larger sample size, nation-wide study, comparative studies, and to include other factors that could have an influence on intention to start a business.

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  1. Kingdom University, Riffa, Bahrain

    Saad Darwish

  2. Open University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Abu Kassim Zorah & Alkhayyat Abdulla Faten

  3. Arab Open University, A’ali, Bahrain

    Abu Kassim Zorah & Alkhayyat Abdulla Faten

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Darwish, S., Zorah, A.K., Faten, A.A. (2023). Relationship Between Entreprenurial Education and Intention to Start a Business in Bahrain. In: Hannoon, A., Mahmood, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Society 5.0. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43300-9_16

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