The Prominent Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Skillset for Future Civil Engineering Graduates and Salient Factor That Promotes its Development

The notion that `a host of entrepreneurial skills' is instrumental in achieving successful completion of a construction project is presenting the emerging need for future civil engineering graduates to be equipped with entrepreneurial skills. However, the collective individual skills that reflect `a host of entrepreneurial skills' for future civil engineering graduates and the salient factor that promote its development is ambiguous given that entrepreneurship per se is a multidimensional concept. Therefore, a quantitative study has been conducted to discover the collective individual skills that reflect `a host of entrepreneurial skills' for future civil engineering graduate and the factor that promote its development. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) has been used as a method to analyse the data. The outcome of the study shows that `a host of entrepreneurial skills' for future civil engineering graduates are reflected by 5 prominent and 1 non prominent dimensions of individual skills. Besides that the outcome of the study also identified constraint as the salient factor that promotes the development of the entrepreneurial skill set.