Entrepreneurship Education for Higher Education Students in KSA and Its Impact on Their Employability: An Empirical Investigation
Raja Yahya Alsharief, Hatem El-Gohary

Abstract
This research study aims to investigate the effect of teaching enterprise, new product development (NPD) and entrepreneurship on science and technology degree courses in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and its impact on students’ attitudes towards starting a small business enterprise (SBE) or a new business enterprise (NBE). Based on the review of the related literature, the current research validates a conceptual model applying a postpositivist research philosophy with a triangulation approach, in which quantitative and qualitative triangulation is employed to deal with and collect the research data. Data were collected by means of interviews and survey strategy through questionnaires and data was analysis using path analysis. The results of the empirical investigation of this research and its findings support the research model and all of its hypotheses. The research results showed that teaching enterprise, new product development and entrepreneurship on science and technology degree courses in KSA have a significant impact on these students’ attitudes towards starting a small business enterprise (SBE) or a new business enterprise. It was also found that entrepreneurship teaching has the highest significant positive impact on KSA science and technology students’ attitudes towards starting a new business or a small business enterprise.

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