The influence of Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence in engineering entrepreneurial creativity and innovation

Author

Chin, Susan Tee Suan ; Raman, Kavitha ; Jian Ai Yeow ; Eze, Uchenna C.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Bus., Multimedia Univ., Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

fYear

2013

fDate

4-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

113

Abstract

An engineer can be an entrepreneur. The engineer has all the technical knowledge to build and design. The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Intelligence on Innovation. A total of 88 successful entrepreneurs from Malaysia participated in this study. The GENOS Emotional Intelligence questionnaire and Spiritual Intelligence (Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale) was used in the study. It was found that Spiritual Intelligence influences 99.8% of the variations in Innovations of the entrepreneurs.

Keywords

industrial psychology; innovation management; personnel; GENOS emotional intelligence questionnaire; Malaysia; engineering entrepreneurial creativity; innovation; integrated spiritual intelligence scale; technical knowledge; Conferences; Educational institutions; Emotion recognition; Engineering education; Innovation management; Technological innovation; creativity; emotional intelligence; entrepreneurship; innovation; spiritual intelligence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Education (ICEED), 2013 IEEE 5th Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2333-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEED.2013.6908313

Filename

6908313