Youth entrepreneurship and digital: A study from Malaysian digital based business

As we know small and medium enterprises have been a major contributor to the growth of the country’s economic. In recent years, many initiatives and programs have been taken to promote the involvement of youth entrepreneurs to continuously respond to the persistently high youth unemployment rates globally. Entrepreneurship helps young people to survive with their own interest and reduce the amount of unemployment among youth. There is a major attention been given to the youth development especially looking at the entrepreneurial intention because it helps them to decide their future actions. With this perspective in mind, this study will investigate the key factors that ensure youth entrepreneurs intention to do digital base business so they can play an important role in economic development by creating new job opportunities. By using quantitative method this research focused on Kelantan. A convenience sampling is used to collect data and the structured questionnaire was designed to collect data from 254 targeted respondent and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) used for data analysis in this research. This study is helps to give more understanding about the intention of youth entrepreneurs in doing a digital base business. This is important because the internet and other technologies have dramatically altered the process of starting a business. And resulting in a reshaping of the structure of the business environment, which has led to the emergence of a new form of entrepreneurship known as digital entrepreneurship. That is why it is important to have a better understanding about the intention of youth entrepreneurs in doing a digital base business which is the purpose of this study.