Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Education (ICEED), 2013 IEEE 5th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2333-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICEED.2013.6908313
