The Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Technological gap in Entrepreneurship Education in Nigerian Higher Institutions

Abstract

The study investigates the contemporary issues, challenges and technological gap in entrepreneurship education in Nigerian higher institutions. Entrepreneurship education has emphasis on economics and covers business disciplines like management, marketing and finance with links to psychology, sociology, and teacher education as well as business education. It prepares and builds persons to be responsible and enterprising individuals capable of deep entrepreneurial thinking that contribute to economic and sustainable development. It focuses on expertise that is needed and used to conceive and commercialise business opportunities. Nigeria especially in the face of the global economic crisis and its energy crisis requires graduates who will be job “creators” and not job “seekers”. This paper addresses contemporary issues, challenges, technological gap and strategies in the development of entrepreneurship education in Nigerian higher institutions. It therefore concluded that entrepreneurship is more than being smart. It is the ability of a person to collaborate with others and to act in the face of new opportunities. Recommendations were made that entrepreneurial teachings have to go beyond the traditional teachings in the classroom. This implies the need to involve students in experiential training. The government should set machinery in motion to provide an enabling environment for entrepreneurship education in Nigerian higher institutions.