IMPACT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION ON ENTREPRENEURIAL INNOVATION AMONG STUDENTS OF OSUN STATE POLYTECHNIC, IRE, OSUN STATE
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2019
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Ilorin Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM)
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The objective of this study is to examine the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial innovation among students of Osun State Polytechnic, Ire in Osun State, Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted for this study. Both primary and secondary sources of data were used. A stratified random sampling procedure was used to select a sample of three hundred and fifty (350) respondents. Data collected were analyzed using Simple Regression Analysis. The result of the Simple Regression Analysis revealed that F-value is statistically significant at 1 percent. The estimated coefficient of multiple determination (R2) value of 0.745 indicated that 74.5% of variance in entrepreneurial innovation can be explained by entrepreneurship education. This shows that entrepreneurship education is an important factor which positively and significantly influence entrepreneurial innovation. The study concluded that entrepreneurship education improves the students’ entrepreneurial innovativeness, competencies and desirability to start a new or expanding the existing business after graduation. Based on this, the study recommended that there is need to encourage students to embrace entrepreneurship education or training and the evolvement of national culture of entrepreneurship education which would re-orientate students to make them innovative, creative and inventive thereby changing their mindsets from job-seeking mentality to entrepreneurial innovativeness.
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Entrepreneurship,, entrepreneurship education,, entrepreneurial innovation