Abstract
This study examined the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of university undergraduate students in Benue State, Nigeria. The study specifically examined the effect of entrepreneurship education on start-up intention and innovation intention among university undergraduate students in Benue State, Nigeria. The adopted the cross-sectional survey design involving university undergraduates in three universities in Benue State. The population of the study comprised of 957 final year students from Faculty of Management Sciences from JS Tarka University Makurdi (224), Benue State University Makurdi (631) and University of Mkar, Mkar (102). Applying Taro Yamene’s formula, a sample size of 282 was realized. The study employed questionnaire as the major instrument for data collection. The items on the questionnaire were all measured on a 5-point scale ranging from 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree. Result of pilot study showed that the reliability for each of the constructs was above 0.70. Simple linear regression analysis was used in testing the data gathered from the survey. Analysis was done with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 23). Findings revealed that entrepreneurship education has significant positive effect on start-up intention and innovation intention of university undergraduate students in Benue State, Nigeria. The study concludes that university undergraduate students’ intentions toward entrepreneurship can be enhanced using entrepreneurship education. This study is an initial call to elaborate an appropriate model of entrepreneurship education in universities in Benue State that will present a more practical and effective entrepreneurship education
Highlights
In the present age and with the intensification of competition in business on a global scale, the success rate of companies is closely related to their ability to formulate and adopt appropriate strategies for purposeful, intelligent and directional struggle
Using the judo strategy techniques found in the previous step as well as the SWOT matrix, the company's strategic goals are first categorized as two categories of internal strategic goals and external strategic goals in the form of a balanced scorecard
After examining the common frameworks in the strategy formulation process and the models used in these frameworks, the disadvantages of these methods in identifying and formulating strategy were discussed and judo strategy as a suitable and systematic tool to reduce the impact of elite personal views and process
Summary
In the present age and with the intensification of competition in business on a global scale, the success rate of companies is closely related to their ability to formulate and adopt appropriate strategies for purposeful, intelligent and directional struggle. Due to the special conditions of businesses in today's world and the constant change of environmental variables, it is no longer possible to proceed with long-term planning based on past information and without considering the possible competitive actions of competitors (Aliahmadi et al, 2015). This problem is difficult to adapt to a highly competitive environment. Due to the existence of these shortcomings in SWOT models and balanced scorecard, their efficiency in the strategy formulation process is significantly reduced
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