Exploring the Role of Entrepreneurship Studies for Economic Transformation and National Development

摘要

Lack of right policy initiatives and discipline in the educational system toward producing self reliant graduates seemudto be responsible for the high rate of unemployment; increasing graduate unemployability syndrome; low humanuddevelopment index (standard of living) and the "youth budge" syndrome, evidenced in the increasing crime wave.udThis paper examines the impact of entrepreneurial development studies (EDS) and Nigerian government support ofudEDSon national development. The paper adopts the ordinary least square (OLS) technique for the analysis and theudresult identified that there is need for the development of national venture capital and an agency for securitizationudof such project to support the philosophy of entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Based on the finding of this paper, weudrecommend that the right policy initiatives and supports should be evolved to develop and drive entrepreneurialudcapacities and discipline among every Nigerian for National development if Nigeria as a nation wants to becomeudone of the top twenty (20) world economies in 2020.