Adewumi STUDENTS’ ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL HEALTH .pdf (828.01 kB)
Students’ entrepreneurial mindset in the era of global health pandemic: perspective from the University of Lagos, Nigeria
journal contribution
posted on 2022-01-20, 10:00 authored by Samson Adeoluwa AdewumiRemarking on the justification for entrepreneurship as a critical component for economic and
employment creation, emphasis on building a robust student’s entrepreneurship mind-set has
received less attention, especially in this era of global health pandemic (Covid-19). This
knowledge chasm stimulates the need to understand students’ entrepreneurship mind-set in this
era of paid employment loss. A total of 24 final year students were selected on purpose and
snowball across two faculties with the Mind-set theoretical analysis reviewed as the theoretical
leaning. The results reveal the development of students’ entrepreneurship mind-set to include
attitude development, preparedness, being business savvy and a stimulating business
environment. Others include effective mobilization of human and material resources and
appropriate students’ cognitive cognizance. The persistent economic downturn was argued as
the link between the global health pandemic and the dwindling rate of graduate jobs, whereas
appropriate entrepreneurship education, content and curriculum was advanced as important
indicators for a sustaining students’ entrepreneurial mind-set. The study recommends the
university administrators in their effort to implement entrepreneurship education across the strata
of the university as a pathway to economic sustenance and development. This effort, however,
must be channeled to ensure students are greatly motivated towards entrepreneurship venture.