Empowering Youth for Impact: The Role of Education and Training in Boosting Social Entrepreneurship in Sabah

This paper explores how education and training programmed can enhance youth social entrepreneurship in Sabah, Malaysia. Social entrepreneurship is a big solution to social and economic problems especially to marginalized B40 communities. Nevertheless, there are limited resource and education as well for youths in Sabah. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate how government support can augment efforts to teach young people skills and build networks in entrepreneurship training. The study therefore examines how education affects the success of youth social enterprises using the Resource-Based View (RBV) theory. Entrepreneurial skills and access to networks are the main factors studied while government support is used as a moderating factor. The study focusses on the success of youth social enterprises. The data will be gathered through survey study of Sabah youths aged between 18 to 35 who have attended entrepreneurial education programs. Respondents will be selected using a purposive sampling method, while the data will be analyzed using tools such as SPSS and SmartPLS. This way the study hopes to find that having better skills and networks yields higher performing social enterprises, in which government support is expected to help realize their effectiveness. Meanwhile, it also seeks to highlight where training programs would be better, and recommend ways in which educators, policymakers and stakeholders can do so. The results will be of practical value to young entrepreneurs, as well as offer practical suggestions to training programmed, and social and economic development in Sabah.