Abstract
This study is on effect of university entrepreneurship courses on entrepreneurial motivation of graduate. The total population for the study is 200 staff of SME in Etsako West Local Government Area Auchi, Edo State. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made managers, secretaries, content developers and junior staff was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study
Globalization has resulted into an increasingly challenging demand for graduates to be more competitive and creative. Governments are committed to develop creativity through such efforts to stimulate, incorporate elements of innovation in school curriculum, focusing on R&D and increase the availability of risk capital (Othman and et al 2012). Moreover, an uncertain world economic increase number of graduated people. Thus, the problem of unemployment presents a challenge for higher education institutions (Hoe Chee Hee, 2006). Therefore, many of experts are seeking catalyst for expanding economic growth and they believe that one of potential catalyst is for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship defines as doing works that normally do not do in the ordinary course of business processes. University as the source of all the changes in society should be a leader in the entrepreneurial process. Because university’s mission and commitments to community, they must try for the survival and efficacy and on the other hand the role of communities as a template with other organizations, in order to provide a suitable ground for other agencies for effective plan. Policy makers also believe that increased levels of entrepreneurship can be reached through education and especially entrepreneurship education. Universities should also be pioneer in entrepreneurship process, because the University’s mission and commitment to community on one hand, it tries to survive and their effectiveness and the other hand play role of communities as a template of other organizations. Furthermore, it should plan for effectiveness of other organizations in order to efficient manner provides new products and services for the society.
Thus, over all expectations, objectives and policies are established by the university to train entrepreneurs in order to attain coherent strategy for training entrepreneurs. University must believe that is a system and social set. If the system do not optimize the relationship with its environment and lose exchange material and information with the environment, it will have static condition and also lose its independent identity. It seems university should regard creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and necessary of development and prosperity as fundamental principle in order to University programs to be aligned and coordinated and with a spirit of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship as a major strategic goal of the University gradually becomes dominant culture of the society. But unfortunately what our universities have been regarded as a matter of education and research issues, scientific and training related to the needs of the university and the community has not done enough attention. In addition, students with entrepreneurial process are still unknown, because there is not sufficient infrastructure to provide entrepreneurial development.
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