Exploring Openness to Experience and Undergraduates’ Digital Entrepreneurial Intention

Abstract

The present opinion paper explored the world of digital entrepreneurship and 
the seeming inexhaustible entrepreneurial opportunities it portends for 
students to create employment for themselves and employ others. The study 
discovered that only the experts and the competents in digital 
entrepreneurship are the ones qualified to seize digital entrepreneurial 
opportunities as inept have no space to hold unto there. However, while 
many students do not possess requisite skill, many more do not even know 
of digital entrepreneurial opportunities, because they have not been exposed 
to same, despite the fact that ICT course mandates such teachings. The 
paper is a call for the educator and other stakeholders to practically expound 
openness to experience in order to enhance learners’ self-efficacies and 
synergize modalities to open them up to the untapped pool of digital 
employment opportunities. It is hoped that the success of few students in 
the digital entrepreneurial cyberspace may attract many more students and, 
unemployment rate might as well be mitigated.