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The intention to set up social ventures remains an unpopular choice for intending entrepreneurs due to its obvious limitations of resource constraints. Yet it remains a vital means of making social goods available to disadvantaged people, especially in developing countries. Our study aims to investigate how prior experience and networking ability interacts with empathy, moral obligation, self-efficacy, and social support to induce social entrepreneurial intentions in budding entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Using simultaneous linear regression, we analyzed data from a collection of 315 respondents enrolled in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)—a one-year mandatory national service scheme for graduates of higher institutions who are on the verge of making critical career choices. Our findings show that the main effects were statistically significant, while networking ability, more than prior experience, moderated the main effects. Conclusively, budding entrepreneurs need to hone their networking skills in order to exploit their social networks and complement the benefits of prior experiences as they contemplate social entrepreneurship. Future investigations can focus on determining how other environmental factors such as government/institutional support, technological adoption, and infrastructure would affect social entrepreneurial intentions.

The study focuses on the role of public enterprises in economic development in Nigeria.The study soughs to ascertain the role of public enterprises in improving the standard of living in Nigeria, to determine the nature of the relationship between Public enterprises and employment generation, to ascertain challenges encounter by public enterprises in contributing to national development .The study had a population size of 340, out of which a sample size of 246 was realised using Taro Yamane's formula at 5% error tolerance and 95% level of confidence. Instrument used for data collection was primarily questionnaire and interview. Out of 246 copies of the questionnaire that were distributed, 230 copies were returned while 16 were not returned. The survey research design was adopted for the study. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, Chi-square and simple linear regression statistical tools. The findings indicated that Public enterprises significantly improve standard of living in Nigeria (r = 0.703; t =29.976; F= 898.558; p< 0.05).There is a positive relationship between Public enterprises and employment generation (r = .596, P<.05). Corruption, defective capital structures and mismanagement are challenges encounters by public enterprises in contributing to national development (X 2 c= 68.270> X 2 t = 9.49, p< 0.05).The study concluded that public sector is set up with the main aim of protecting public interest. Public enterprises are major players in economic development.The study recommended that government should sensitize the mind of their citizens to understand that public enterprises is a tool for national development, if managed well, it will create job and improve standard of living.