Entrepreneurship Education: A Catalyst to Sustainable Economic Development in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper focused on entrepreneurship education as a catalyst to 
sustainable economic development in Nigeria. In achieving this, concept of 
entrepreneurship, concept of entrepreneurship education, concept of 
entrepreneur, objectives, characteristics, challenges as well as impact of 
entrepreneurship education on economic development were thoroughly 
discussed. This study, therefore posited that entrepreneurship education 
will equip individuals with skills to be dependent and self-reliant. It was 
concluded that, entrepreneurship still remains the bedrock for job creation 
and general economic development as it provides opportunity to improve 
quality of life and make contributions to the society. This study further 
recommended that there should be focused curriculum; government and 
its education agencies such as National Universities Commission (NUC), 
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Commission for 
Colleges of Education (NCCE) and others should incorporate a welltailored entrepreneurship curriculum that will train and expose students, 
potential and existing entrepreneurs on risk taking and handling, job 
creation and economic development, regulatory agencies should lay more 
emphasis on the creation of entrepreneurship development centre where 
at least two compulsory courses on entrepreneurship will be offered by all students and entrepreneurship courses should be departmentalized and 
tailored on how each department can go into small scale business through 
the provision of conducive economic environment to encourage individuals 
to participate in business.