| dc.description.abstract | There seem to be growing interest in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship
education all over the world. The concept of entrepreneurship has attracted policy
makers, academics, industrialists, economists, university students. According to
Matley and Westhead (2005) this is evidenced in the scores of seminars,
conferences and workshop being organized at international, regional and national
levels with the emphasis on the need to sensitize individuals, societies, and
countries to embark on entrepreneurship. The main reason for this is that
entrepreneurship is regarded as one of the best economic development strategies to
develop country’s economic growth and sustain the country’s competitiveness in
facing the increasing trends of globalization (Schaper and Volery 2009; Matley and
Westhead 2005).
Another reason for the growing interest in entrepreneurship include the growing
rate of unemployment and poverty that becomes obvious after the economic
depression of the early 1980’s; the recession in the agricultural market and the
realization of the ability of small medium sized enterprises to create wide-spread
employment opportunities thereby militating against unemployment and poverty
(Alarape, 2008). | en_US |
