Designing Entrepreneurship Training Ecosystem Model's Components and Items Using the Fuzzy Delphi Method (Fdm)

Abstract

This study aims to determine the appropriate components and items of the entrepreneurship training ecosystem model for the Malaysian Skills Certificate (MSC) training programme. A total of 21 subject matter experts were selected as respondents to the study using the Fuzzy Delphi method (FDM). They are made up of experts in the field of entrepreneurship, the Malaysian Skills Certification System, and entrepreneurship education. This study focuses on the application of FDM by trying to get the consensus of the experts regarding the items that are suitable to be placed under the main components of the model. A questionnaire containing 43 items were given to all experts. These items are located under the 6 main components of the model, namely entrepreneurial competence, curriculum, co-curriculum, competent instructor, pedagogy, and industry partnership. The results of this study found that all the items suggested to the experts exceeded the value of 0.2 threshold value (d), obtained more than 75% group consensus, and surpassed 0.5 for defuzzification a-cut. This application has also determined the priority ranking of items under each model component.