Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Cradle To Rope In Partners To Sustain JWEF Malaysia

PETALING JAYA, July 2 (Bernama) -- Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd, an agency under the Ministry of Finance, will rope in key partners within the next two years to help sustain the Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum (JWEF) Malaysia, its Chief Executive Officer Nazrin Hassan said.

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/bu/newsbusiness.php?id=960329
Published: July 03, 2013

"We want Malaysia to be the next global platform for young entrepreneurs," he said after the launch of the forum in which Cradle is partnering Inti International University and Colleges (INTI).

Created as an extension of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, launched back in 2008 by Emylon Business School and KPMG, JWEF is a global community of students and young entrepreneurs.

Cradle and Inti both aim to spread the entrepreneurial spirit in all fields of society and create a platform for students and young people to meet with entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and academics to share their success stories.

Nazrin said young Malaysians are as talented as young people in neighbouring countries, and the right time to mould them into entrepreneurs is when they are between 18 and 30, when they are still at universities or colleges.

"They will not have inferiority complexes any more and will be just as good as anyone if not better," he said, adding that entrepreneurship can solve the problem of unemployed graduates in Malaysia.

Meanwhile, Inti CEO Amit Sevak said from January next year, Inti students will have to take an entrepreneurship course.

"We believe that at the end of their studies, students will have exposure to entrepreneurial skills, besides being knowledgeable in their own field," he said.

He also announced the launch on July 9 of Inti's new campus in Kuala Lumpur with a new student intake next month. Offering business-related programmes, it can accommodate 2,000 students.

-- BERNAMA

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