Entrepreneurial Intentions Amongst African Students: A Case Study of the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
This chapter examines the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions of university students in an African university setting. The case illustration is based upon a sample of 261 university students at the University of Education, Winneba, Kumasi (Ghana).
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tion Due to its contribution to economic growth, innovativeness, job creation and wealth creation, entrepreneurship has gained global attention across most sectors from agriculture, through media and entertainment to higher education (Igwe et al. 2020; Taura et al. 2019; Buame 1996). Ghana as a developing nation encourages entrepreneurial activities in various ways due to the ever-growing undergraduate and/or graduate
N. O. Madichie (*) UNIZIK Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria e-mail: [email protected] M. Ibrahim School of Finance & Economics, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China © The Author(s) 2020 S. Adesola, S. Datta (eds.), Entrepreneurial Universities, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48013-4_8
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unemployment challenge. Universities and the wider tertiary education institutions across the country offer some form of entrepreneurship in the curriculum either as a full programme or as part of the required course. In the past two decades, higher education has seen considerable growth both in the development of entrepreneurship as a subject and in the number of entrepreneurship courses offered (Bell 2015) and these courses are largely found in business schools within higher education institutions (HEIs) (Collins et al. 2006; Madichie and Fiberesima 2019; Madichie and Gbadamosi 2017; Fantazy and Madichie 2015; Healey 2019). The aim is to impart entrepreneurial skills among university students before graduation. Consequently, the solution to unemployment and economic problems would drastically reduce if not be eliminated. Outside the academic environment, the Government of Ghana has through some initiatives such as the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) among others encouraged entrepreneurship in order to address the challenges of youth unemployment. Much of the literature on entrepreneurship in Ghana has concentrated on the development of formal or informal entrepreneur with their respondents being entrepreneurs (see Adom and Williams 2012; Black and Castaldo 2009; Buame 1996; Robson et al. 2009). Lee et al. (2011) argue that recognising the factors that influence entrepreneurial intentions represents a central component of studying the new business creation process. To this end, academic institutions are encouraged to investigate and understand the factors that determine entrepreneurial intentions (Maes et al. 2014). Whereas there is a great body of literature with respect to investigation of entrepreneurial intentions, there is paucity of research D. R. Adam Department of Managerial Sciences, Garden City University College, Kenyase-Kumasi, Ghana Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Kaposvar, Kaposvár, Hungary e-mail: [email protected] Y. Ustarz Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship Development, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana e-mail: [email protected]
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