Exploring student interest in entrepreneurship at technical and engineering based higher education institution

Abstract

Entrepreneurship creates wealth and reduces unemployment. Entrepreneurs contribute to industrialisation as well as to economic growth; they improve living standards and tax revenues from their enterprises contribute to a nation' s treasury. Not surprisingly, then, governments have been spending considerable sums trying to create entrepreneurs. With this changing and approach, young graduates may face the opportunities to self-employment, of which the approach implies greater scope for entrepreneurial activity. This articles discusses entrepreneurship education and draws on primary research into students attitudes to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurships. A total of 300 questionaires were collected from the respondents. The results showed that entrepreneurship education should be incorporated into the non-business degree programmes and entrepreneurship as a career should be encourage on career choice specially for the technical degree programmes.