Despite being the third largest economy in Southeast Asia, Malaysian entrepreneurial activity is under-reported in the scholarly literature. This book extends such research by examining the impact of entrepreneurship on its economy and evaluating the existing systemic problems. The Malaysian economy has benefited from the density of knowledge-based businesses and utilization of the latest technologies in the manufacturing and digital economies. However, Malaysia faces ongoing challenges, namely concentration of wealth in the city, high regional unemployment and workplace gender inequality. In regional areas, there is an over-reliance on agriculture and necessity based entrepreneurship. Consequently, entrepreneurial activity has been encouraged with the creation of eco-systems, seed corn funding and provision of entrepreneurship education to offer entrepreneurial career choices.

Providing recommendations and best practice for driving entrepreneurshipand entrepreneurial behaviours, this contributed volume presents the first opportunity to reflect on both the success stories and systemic problems related to effective entrepreneurial behaviour in a South East Asian context.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Entrepreneurial activity in Malaysia: A Country level perspective

Chapter 2. An Overview of Entrepreneurship in Malaysia
Chapter 3. Proximity, Collaborative Relationship and Entrepreneur's Knowledge Spill-Over Opportunity in a Malaysian Regional Innovation System
Chapter 4. Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship
Chapter 5. The Role of Government and Higher Education in Developing Social Entrepreneurship in Malaysia
Chapter 6. Social Entrepreneurship: Policies and Practice in Malaysia
Chapter 7. From Producer to Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurial Learning Process of Smallholders in Sabah
Chapter 8. Exploring SME Women Entrepreneurs' Work-Family Conflict in Malaysia
Chapter 9. Barriers and Facilitators in Applying Industry 4.0 in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Owned by Graduate Entrepreneurs in Malaysia.

ISBN	978-3-030-77752-4
Artikelnummer	9783030777524
Medientyp	Buch
Auflage	1st ed. 2021
Copyrightjahr	2021
Verlag	Springer, Berlin
Umfang	XXIII, 217 Seiten
Abbildungen	XXIII, 217 p. 3 illus.
Sprache	Englisch