Performance among Youth Entrepreneur in Malaysia Micro SMEs

Entrepreneurship development calls for support from various quarters and primarily the need exists to initiate a youth entrepreneurship culture and drive amongst the youth in the society. The Malaysian government launched several programs and schemes to boost SMEs activities. This study aims to study the determinants of youth entrepreneur’s business performance involved in micro SMEs in Malaysia. Specifically, the study analyses the relationship of infrastructure facility, business support facility and government policy with the performance of youth entrepreneurs. The study adopts a quantitative approach whereby a questionnaire survey was used to gather data. The questionnaires were distributed to sample selected using data by the Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Seemingly unrelated regression (SURE) was chosen as a method to allow for contemporaneous correlation among errors in these regression models. The results of this study is expected to give insight into the developing youth entrepreneur, thus, assisting the government in formulation policies for the development of youth entrepreneur specifically involved in micro SMEs.