Proceedings of 8th Asian Business Research Conference 1 - 2 April 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, ISBN: 978-1-922069-20-7 Entrepreneurial quality among graduate entrepreneurs Shamsul Huda Binti Abd Rani and Siohong Tih The originality of this study is mainly in terms of the identification of the dimension in entrepreneurial quality in graduate entrepreneur context which is less in receiving attention in the previous studies. A qualitative study was conducted to identify the entrepreneurial quality among graduate entrepreneurs. Seven semi-structure interviews were conducted with successful graduate entrepreneurs. The findings of the study indicated that there are seven dimensions of entrepreneurial quality among graduate entrepreneurs. Finally it is hoped that by the presence of this study, there will more successful graduate entrepreneurs in the future. Keywords: Graduate entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial quality,qualitative studies Entrepreneurship is critical for the economy as entrepreneurship is an engine of economic progress, job creation as well as social adjustment (Gurol & Atsan, 2006). The growing need to hasten economic development by generating new ideas and to translate into profitable ventures makes entrepreneurship an attention for the scholars as well as the policy makers (Turker & Selcuk , 2008). Parallel with the developing interest in entrepreneurship, many countries as diversed as Austria, Brazil, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the United Kingdom have promoted entrepreneurship education programmes into the education system since 1990 (Dana ,2001). In Malaysian context, the role of entrepreneurship is critical as Malaysia has envisioned being a fully developed country by the year 2020 (Saeed & Jain, 2000). Entrepreneurial Quality Research on entrepreneurial quality has become an interest in the field of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial quality has been defined in many ways by the previous researchers. In defining the concept of entrepreneurial quality, the previous researchers looked at entrepreneurial quality from various perspectives. As the studies on entrepreneurial quality are growing, the term also has also been defined from various perspectives. Most of the previous studies defined entrepreneurial quality as any good and important value and characteristics possessed by the entrepreneurs (Frederick ,1931; Yusuf ,1995; Guzman and Santos ,2001; Cumplido & Alcalde ,2002; Cumplido & Linan, 2007; Shuhairimi et. al., 2009; Hvide, 2009). In addition, other researchers have looked at the entrepreneurial quality from the psychological perspectives (Valtonen, 2007; Krauss, Frese, Friedrich & Unger ,2005; Shamsul Huda Binti Abd Rani, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia dieda1211@yahoo.com Siohong Tih, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia