Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship: The Role of Mentoring

Shittu, Ayodele Ibrahim

doi:10.19088/1968-2017.132

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“…Among advocates this shift is presented as practical and urgent rather than ideological. But underlying the measurable impacts they promise, we find a pie-in-the-sky ideology that sees insurmountable barriers to ‘dream careers’ surmounted, and fantasy futures attained through ‘identity reinvention’, ‘self-picturing’ and ‘self-belief’; in other words, hope (Shittu, 2017: 146).…”

Section: Triad Of Hope: Aspiration Education and Youth Enterprisementioning

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Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’

Rajak

Dolan

2021

Sociological Research Online

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This article examines how corporate, state and donor interests have converged in attempts to craft South Africa’s youngsters into an army of entrepreneurs as the last frontier for creating growth in a post-job world. We investigate the apparatus designed to engineer this entrepreneurial revolution and the actors hoping to seed enterprising aspirations in school-age kids. Our ethnographic findings show that while the ideology of entrepreneurial education enrols kids in anticipation of an entrepreneurial future, it falls short of both its enticing promise and its transformative intentions. As enterprise education fails to deliver on the New South African Dream, we argue, the aspirations it propagates withers, generating disaffection rather than a generation of entrepreneurial subjects faithful to the neoliberal creed of making it on your own.

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Section: Triad Of Hope: Aspiration Education and Youth Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’

Rajak

Dolan

2021

Sociological Research Online

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“…As in Usioboh, (2008), entrepreneurship is being vigorously advocated because of its potential to create jobs by starting new enterprises; facilitate technology transfer or the adaptation of existing ones; raising productivity through various forms of innovation; harness resources that might otherwise remain idle, and put them into productive use; energize small scale businesses and also public enterprises; promote and maintain economic vitality; Oborah [53], submitted that entrepreneurship is a veritable employment alternative to wage employment and panacea to graduate unemployment. The entrepreneurial attitude of young Nigerians is generally considered to be high [36], and many observers assume that they are naturally ready to embark on an entrepreneurial journey [33].…”

Section: Youth Entrepreneurship and Its Importancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Youth Entrepreneurship affects the social and cultural, and economic progress of society [49]. Many young people are forced into self-employment due to uncertainties in the economy and the inadequate availability of formal paid jobs and other career opportunities [33]. Nigeria ranks the 7 th most populous country in the world [50].…”

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Entrepreneurship: An Option to Solving Unemployment Problem Among Nigerian Youths

Aladejebi¹

2020

EBM

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Youth unemployment is a problem that affects developing countries, including Nigeria. Recent research on youths and their involvement in entrepreneurship activities is gaining ground seriously due to the economic downturn that increases unemployment. The study's goals include providing suitable suggestions to promote entrepreneurship, problems confronting youth entrepreneurship, the examination of the role of entrepreneurial education in youth employment, and schemes that boost youth entrepreneurship. Data was collected from the primary source by using a structured questionnaire. The sample was selected using a stratified random sampling technique. The target respondents were youths between the ages of 20 and 40 years. Data was gathered from 220 youth entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria. SPSS and Excel were used to analyse the data. The study found out parents and family influenced their decision to start a business. Lack of access to finance and financial risks were found to be significant demotivators for youths against starting up a business. Education was seen to support the entrepreneurial careers of the respondents. The study also showed that difficulty in attracting funding was a significant problem affecting youth entrepreneurship. The recommendations include Tertiary institutions should train students in entrepreneurship. The government should set up special funds (Loans & Grants) for youth entrepreneurship. Youth should be involved in policy development on entrepreneurship. Capacity-building should be organized often for youth entrepreneurs. More functional incubation centers should be established across the country to breed young entrepreneurs. Established adult and youth entrepreneurs should be encouraged to mentor up and coming, youth entrepreneurs. The government should be consistent in youth entrepreneurship policy. The Government should address the issue of multiple taxations, poor infrastructure, poor planning, corruption, etc. The government should encourage citizens to patronize homemade goods. Bureaucratic bottlenecks concerning government transactions with entrepreneurs should be eliminated. The government should improve the ease of doing business.

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“…The role of incubation platforms for entrepreneurship is consistent with the claim made by Thorton, Flynne [5], and Saxenian [6] that entrepreneurial environments are characterized by thriving supportive networks that provide institutional structures connecting individual entrepreneurs to organized sources of learning and resources. Numerous studies have looked at the goals [7], obstacles [8], motivation [9], supports [10,11], entrepreneurial skills [12], mentoring [13], and social networks [14] that influence young people's decision to return to entrepreneurship. Less research has been conducted on company incubation platforms, though.…”

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confidence: 99%

Performance Model of Youth Entrepreneurship Platform in the Context of Common Wealth Returning to Hometown

Liu,

Ma,

Zhou

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The construction of business incubator platforms to assist young people who return to their hometowns to launch their own enterprises is urgently needed because youth entrepreneurship is seen as a crucial component of rural revitalization. Based on this, the authors of this study distributed surveys to 468 returning youths in rural startup spaces to gather data, built a structural model, and conducted interviews with 13 entrepreneurial youths to examine the relationship between government policies, services, and the design of rural startup spaces, as well as the self-efficacy of returning entrepreneurial youths and the innovation performance of businesses. The results demonstrate how important government policies are in encouraging youth entrepreneurship in their local communities. It has the potential to enhance both the development of rural crowdsourcing spaces and the self-efficacy of young entrepreneurs, thereby enhancing the innovative capabilities of local entrepreneurial businesses. Therefore, in order to encourage economic development in rural areas, the government should improve pertinent support measures, enhance the development of business incubation platforms, and encourage young people moving back to their hometowns to start their own businesses.

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Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship: The Role of Mentoring

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’

Aspiring Minds: ‘A Generation of Entrepreneurs in the Making’

Entrepreneurship: An Option to Solving Unemployment Problem Among Nigerian Youths

Performance Model of Youth Entrepreneurship Platform in the Context of Common Wealth Returning to Hometown

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