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STIMULATING ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG NIGERIAN YOUTH: THE IMPACT OF
ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION
A COMPREHENSIVE POLICY RESEARCH OF THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
(NACETEM)www.nacetem.org
Presented byA. A. EGBETOKUN
At the African Entrepreneurship Seminar
March 31 – April 2, 2008; Transcorp Hilton, Abuja
ORGANISERSSchool of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex
&Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency
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This Presentation…
• Part of a much larger study• Title: Assessment of Technological
Entrepreneurial Attitude in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions
• Key Themes:– Influence of
• Age• Gender• Academic Performance• Entrepreneurial Education• Family• Ethnicity • etc
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Objectives• Quantify students’ and lecturers’ interest and
involvement in entrepreneurial practice;• Assess the influence of specific factors on
entrepreneurial attitude;• Evaluate the existing entrepreneurial education
curricula in the institutions
• Undergraduate students from Nigerian tertiary institutions were the main subjects; lecturers were secondary targets
• Over 7500 students and over 1200 lecturers sampled• 13 Universities; 9 Polytechnics; 3 CoE (Tech)
Scope
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Figure 1: Map of Nigeria showing sampled Institutions
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FCTNorth CentralNorth EastNorth WestSouth EastSouth SouthSouth West
University
Polytechnic
College of Education (Technical)
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Key Results• 84% students interested in entrepreneurship• 37.7% had taken courses in entrepreneurship• Significant difference in interest btw students with
entrepreneurial training and those without• Significant difference btw PEC of those with
entrepreneurial training and those without
• Entrepreneurial education positively influences entrepreneurial interest
• While training might not necessarily endow individuals with certain personal characteristics, it has the tendency to amplify these characteristics where they are present
Implications
