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The document discusses a case study of the Polytechnic Ibadan's Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship Study Centre (VSESC) and its efforts to promote technopreneurship. It conducted surveys of 37 students and 50 respondents to assess VSESC's programs. The results found that while some students are engaged in branding, many need mentorship to become better entrepreneurs. It recommends providing students with additional skills and education to become job creators rather than job seekers. In conclusion, it suggests the need to upgrade VSESC's resources like projectors, power supply, and equipment to improve practical training opportunities for students.
Powering creativity with technopreneurship slides
- 1. Powering creativity with Technopreneurship: A case study of the Polytechnic Ibadan 1Abdulhameed Idris Adedamola 2Adeniran Abiodun Ademola 3Enwerem Udochukwu 4Abdulrahim K. Abdulwasiu abdulhameed.adedamola@polyibadan.edu.ng
- 2. 1Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship Study Centre, The Polytechnic, Ibadan 2Department of Civil Engineering Technology, The Polytechnic, Ibadan 3Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Owerri AFFILIATION
- 4. ABSTRACT Technopreneurship is undoubtedly trendy globally today. From Microsoft to eBay, Amazon and so on, the world relies on it to make their ends meet. Undoubtedly, there is an alarming statistics about the growth of malicious cyber activity. In addition, two of three adults online are victims of cyber crime, but through technopreneurship, this will become a thing of the past, in addition to educating the youths on small scale enterprises and how to be a better entrepreneur. The method used for this research is consultation of the Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship Study Centre Web design material, in addition to other literature for facts finding. The result shows that there are lots of works to be done as per technopreneurship according to the thirty seven (37) (N, D.Y, & S.O.O, 2014) students interviewed in class and 50 respondents from survey. However, some are into branding already so they needed some mentorship to be better. The paper concludes by recommending the skills and education to the students to make them employers of labour rather than job seekers Keyword: VSESC, technopreneurship, employer, youth, Microsoft, cyber, job seekers
- 5. INTRODUCTION/LIT -REVIEW The Centre was established in compliance with the Federal Government's initiative through NBTE (http://polyibadanvsesc.com/) Entrepreneurship Development Centres (EDC) Graduates unemployment crises Self-employed Productive members of the society
- 6. INTRODUCTION According to Okorie et al. (2014), there is high correlation between Technological development and entrepreneurship. Becoming a prosperous society begins with the attitude of the citizenry such as tertiary school students (N, D.Y, & S.O.O, 2014).
- 7. INTRO CNT’D The Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship Study Centre or the Polytechnic Ibadan provides lots of skills to the consumption of the students and outsiders like website design and software development (Mukaila,2021)
- 8. The Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) mandate entrepreneurship skills acquisition by students before graduation. In fact, it is one of the criteria for accreditation; hence, NBTE has tied entrepreneurship to accreditation (The Nation, 2021).
- 9. INTRO CNT’D In addition, following the high rate of unemployment and high incidence of poverty in Nigeria (Nigeria entrepreneurship Initiative, 2009; Ewhrudjakpor, 2008), the need for technopreneurship education in our higher Institutions cannot be over-emphasised.
- 10. RELATED WORKS Iwuagwu et al. (2016) appraised entrepreneurship education in the department of architecture, Abia state Polytechnic, Aba where a population of 173 was involved in the research.
- 11. The students were grouped into two: HND II and ND II and exposed to EED 413 and EED 216 (Entrepreneurship Development and Introduction to Entrepreneurship education) respectively.
- 12. After distributing questionnaires to the respondents, the result showed that the students were not exposed to practical- oriented skills that tally with their specific field of learning.
- 13. The Nigerian Tibune (11 Jan. 2021) reported that the media had been used to disseminate information and therefore, president of a group Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin made a call in a signed statement titled: “free Sowore, others now! She said there had been alleged torture and maltreatment of the SaharaReporters publisher, Sowore” However, the importance of entrepreneurship amongst others is: network expansion through Discos (Electricity distribution) (EEDC, 2021) electronic raffle draw
- 14. METHODOLOGY Surveying method was employed in the paper. This adapted the model used by Iwuagwu et al (2016). The questionnaire captured data of the respondents – all of whom were students in the Polytechnic, Ibadan.
- 15. After the design, it was checked for error and distributed across the WhatsApp platform of the ND 1 and ND 2 computer engineering technology classes, in addition to the EED class through their representatives (see appendix).
- 16. RESULT/DISCUSSION Fifty respondents submitted the form, and the results are as shown below: Having received the inputs from 50 respondents, a descriptive chart was used to represent the responses
- 20. DISCUSSION .
- 21. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION The need for entrepreneurship studies cannot be over emphasised. However, there is need to update the resources at the VSECS centre of the polytechnic in the Website design class. Some of the missing requirements are projectors, power supply and laptops/desktops for practical in addition to improvement in the remuneration of instructors.
- 22. REFERENCES Nigerian Tribune (2021) Women Arise to FG: Free Sowore, others now. Accessed from hardcopy version of the Paper - www.tribuneonlineng.com, 17711, pp. 5 Mukaila, M. (2021) The Polytechnic, Ibadan Vocational Skills Entrepreneurship Study Centre (VSECS) Technical Manual on Website design and software development, AMS prints, pp.1-20 The Nation (2021) NBTE ties entrepreneurship to accreditation, Retrieved online from www.thenationonlineng.net on 28th March, 2021 Iwuagwu, B.U., Iwuagwu, B.C. and Onyegiri, I. (2016) An Appraisal of Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum in Departments of Architecture in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions: a study of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Nigeria, International Advanced Journal of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 63- 71 Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (2021) 30 Network Expansion Projects, Accessed from hardcopy version of the Paper - www.tribuneonlineng.com, 17711, pp. 5 http://polyibadanvsesc.com/
- 23. APPENDIX