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• 1. INDIGENOUS ‘LUWU’ COMMUNITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – POST MODERN STANDPOINT By-  Rahmawati, Damayanti, R. A, Brinda Kalyani, Kumar D.M  
  ( Posted On : 13-05-2019 )
• 2. Reshaping Service Business –Transforming to Customer Intimate Business in Oman: An Assessment By-  Dr. Cirilo E. Mirano, Jr., Romel A. Basilan  
  ( Posted On : 13-05-2019 )
• 3. Oil and Non-Oil Revenues in Gulf Countries - A Comparative Analysis between Oman and UAE By-  Dr. Md. Shabbir Alam, Dr. Mohammaed Noor Alam, Dr. Naushad Alam3  
  ( Posted On : 13-05-2019 )
• 4. The Role of Business Incubators in Creating an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: A Study of the Sultanate of Oman By-  Shouvik Sanyal, Mohammed Wamique Hisam  
  ( Posted On : 13-05-2019 )

Abstract
Innovative Entrepreneurship as a career choice is dependent on many antecedent factors including individual factors like high need of control, confident, achiever, Intellectually lazy, ability to han-dle risks and goal oriented; social factors like childhood poverty, deprived state or family support, motivation from family and economic factors like growing economy, financial support, govern-ment initiatives that create business opportunities and resource network, among others. Innovative Entrepreneurs build the backbone of any country. Innovative Entrepreneurship is observed as a paramount sustainable strategy to cultivate country’s economic growth and face global competi-tiveness. The aim of this paper is to identify the presence of various innovative entrepreneurial traits present in an individual. This research will also relate the entrepreneurial self traits to their career intentions. Innovative Entrepreneurial self-efficacy will be measured by a self-assessment scale. The items on this scale will represent competencies related to new business development and entrepreneurial success.
This research is a novelty as it focuses on the personal characteristics of an individual who can take new idea to the market, not imitating and proactively being responsive to the environmental changes thus creating distinctive business model. This work will contribute to the existing litera-ture by identifying the Innovative Entrepreneurship self-efficacy (IESE) among Omanis and its influence on their career choice. Particularly, this research aims and attempts to establish relation-ship between Innovative entrepreneurial self-efficacy and individual attitude towards Starting own Business.
Keywords – Innovative Entrepreneurship, Innovative Entrepreneurial self-efficacy, career choice
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- Dr. Kaneez Fatima Sadriwala, Dr. Zunith Ahmed, Dr. Boumedyen Shannaq *