The e-commerce trend has increasingly grown in Malaysia. The revenue for e-commerce platforms in 2019 is USD3.7 billion with more than 20 million users. There were various calls from the ministries for Malaysian to take up e-commerce as it is progressively contributing to the country’s GDP. Bumiputera entrepreneurs have been demanded to play active roles in e-commerce, however their participation and performance are in an alarming state. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the challenges faced, examine the awareness of the existing business support and identify support and assistance which can be implemented to address the issues faced by Bumiputera SME online entrepreneurs. The research was done using survey format. Questionnaire was distributed via online survey. The population is the online entrepreneurs from Malaysian Internet Entrepreneurs Association (PUIM). 493 respondents participated in this study. Findings show that the main challenges were the lack of access to financial assistance and lack of knowledge to conduct market study. While the training needed are Facebook Ads and Business Coaching. Research also shows that the higher the level of education, the lesser the constraints experienced and the greater the level of confidence in business success. Finally, several improvements and suggestions have been proposed.

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This study aims to examine the influence of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial learning towards the entrepreneurial intention. In addition, entrepreneurial self-efficacy is included as a mediating effect on this relationship. Promoting entrepreneurship among students has been an important agenda for universities to reduce unemployment among graduates. Entrepreneurship education has been introduced as a compulsory syllabus and various entrepreneurship activities have been carried out. The data was collected through a survey of students of BBA Entrepreneurship. The results of the data analysis using Partial Least Square demonstrate that there is no significant and positive influence of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention. However, entrepreneurial learning has both direct and indirect relationship to entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy towards students' entrepreneurial intention. It is suggested that entrepreneurship education should be delivered through entrepreneurial learning. Besides, universities should also focus in enhancing entrepreneurial self-efficacy among students in order to encourage them to be an entrepreneur. The implication of these findings for entrepreneurship research and learning are discussed.

This paper presents a study relating to pedagogy approach involving the role of educators, self-directed learning, constructivist learning environment, and students' entrepreneurial endeavor. A conventional pedagogy in class would deploy educators or lecturers as main actors, and students would be on the receiving ends. Currently, many studies have been the focus on finding the best pedagogy in entrepreneurship education. This study is to explore the social constructivist approach in which is said able to encourage students to explore and create their technology business venture in the future while educators would act as mentors to guide students. The study also sought to determine how much educators' role and self-directed learning influence students' entrepreneurial endeavors through the constructivist learning environment. Students from technology entrepreneurship classes were invited to take part in the online survey. Findings had shown that the roles of educators and self-directed learning have a positive effect on an entrepreneurial endeavor. However, a constructive learning environment does not influence an entrepreneurial endeavor. Educators play an essential role in students' self-directed learning that contributes to the constructivist learning environment and their entrepreneurial endeavor. Overall, all variables have a moderate impact on the entrepreneurial endeavor. The level of the constructivist learning environment is still low but promising. Recommendation and suggestions are provided.

Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in contributing the economic growth of most nations. As the global economy slows down, entrepreneurship role becomes increasingly important to drive the pecuniary and societal well-being. In 2012, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), reported an estimation of 126 million women have started or running new businesses in around 67 countries around the world. In addition, about 98 million women are operating established businesses. Study showed that women seem to face difficulties in moving from one phase to another to withstand the entrepreneurship process thus; they are rated lower in terms of starting venture comparing to men. This paper provides a conceptual discussion on the role of intellectual capital, knowledge management, and innovativeness in sustaining competitive advantage of women owners of SMEs. The variables investigated eventually attempts to establish and test an integrated framework for intellectual capital.