Entrepreneurship Education in South Africa

Chimucheka, Tendai

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n2p403

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“…A major assumption in these developments is that entrepreneurship education increases students' career prospects and employability, either through enabling them to become selfemployed persons or through increasing their potential value as more enterprising employees . Consequently, lots of efforts are being put into advancement of entrepreneurship education in formal school curriculum (Chimucheka, 2014).…”

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Beyond entrepreneurship education: business incubation and entrepreneurial capabilities

Ikebuaku

Dinbabo

2018

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Purpose -As a way of dealing with Nigeria's macroeconomic challenge of unemployment and its concomitant socio-economic problems, the federal government, in 2006, made entrepreneurship study a compulsory course for all higher education students irrespective of their area of specialization. However, studies have shown that the programme is yet to achieve its goals as many Nigerian graduates still remain unemployed long after graduation. Using Sen's capability approach, this paper aims to investigate business incubation as an effective tool for enhancing entrepreneurial capabilities beyond entrepreneurship education. Design/methodology/approach -This study has engaged both quantitative (survey questionnaire) and qualitative methodologies (semi-structured interview). Findings -The result shows that through business incubation, budding entrepreneurs have increased access to infrastructures and resources necessary for entrepreneurial success, thereby enhancing their real opportunities (capabilities) for success. Practical implications -For greater effectiveness, business incubation should be integrated into the current entrepreneurship education programme in Nigeria. Originality/value -This study is a debut of research endeavours which theoretically assess entrepreneurship programmes via the capability approach lens. It has developed a conceptual model for assessing business incubation using the capability approach.

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Beyond entrepreneurship education: business incubation and entrepreneurial capabilities

Ikebuaku

Dinbabo

2018

JEEE

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“…The author has recommended the roll out of tailor-made training and mentorship programmes. Chimucheka (2014) has found that start-up SMMEs in the footwear and textile sector often struggle to secure loans that are needed for business operation. The author has pointed out that start-up SMMEs in the footwear and textile industry often fail to order large quantities of merchandise from wholesale suppliers due to difficulty in borrowing money from loan providers.…”

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Uptake of Efficient Marketing Strategies among Footwear and Textile Entrepreneurs in Alexandra Township

Worku¹,

Muchie²

2018

JEBS

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One of the priority needs of Small, Micro and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMMEs) that operate in Alexandra Township is to adopt effective marketing strategies that are recommended by Mooradian, Matzler and Ring (2012) and Kotler and Keller (2012), in which emphasis is placed on setting the right selling price of products, offering the right product, utilising the right promotion strategies for products, and rendering services to customers at the right place. Information needed for the survey was gathered from 108 operators of SMMEs in Alexandra Township. Ordered logit and Bayesian methods were used for estimating predictors of effective marketing. The study found that 63 of the 108 respondents who were selected for the study (58%) possessed adequate marketing skills and capabilities, whereas the remaining 45 respondents (42.23%) were incapable of marketing their goods and services effectively. Results obtained from logit and Bayesian analysis showed that 3 factors affected the ability to market goods and services effectively (access to credit facility for ordering stock, access to loan from money-lending institutions, and ability to network with wholesale suppliers and retailers).

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“…Pendapat yang sama dikatakan oleh (Florea dan Florea, 2013), yang menjelaskan bahwa program pendidikan dan pelatihan kewirausahaan telah memberi kontribusi terhadap pembangunan ekonomi. Demikian juga dengan penelitian (Chimucheka, T, 2014) menunjukkan terdapat hubungan kewirausahaan dengan pendidikan untuk meningkatkan usaha kecil dan peranan pendidikan kewirausahaan pada negara berkembang untuk mengkonstruksi program kewirausahaan (Mastura, Jaafar, et al 2008;Richard, Mandel, and Erik Noyes, 2016;Farhangmehr et. al, 2016).…”

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Model konstruksi kognitif metaphora kewirausahaan: pendekatan konseptual

Sulastri

Wahab

Varbi

2017

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Entrepreneurial knowledge is a taxonomic knowledge with complex and extensive metaphor. Its complexity and breadth requires construct simplification to achieve the effectiveness of the cognitive goals that can be guided as a learning outcome. The aim of this research is to produce a conceptual model on the cognitive entrepreneurial knowledge in learning process in higher education. The cognitive construction model is focused on important variables of entrepreneurship such as (a) opportunities recognition, (b) opportunities exploitation (c) innovation, (d) proactive, and (e) risk taking as the main construct variable in entrepreneurship. Conceptual study that concluded that to do cognitive construction from a learning process, 5 aspects are required: (1) content of what will be interpreted; (2) type of representation that will be reflected and explained; (3) referent, the background of representation of the meaning of content; (4) relatedness, the relationship between content and context and (5) the interaction between content, representation, referent and relatedness in forming intentionality. The cognitive construction process will reach it means if intentionality is formed as the goal of learning activity. Proposition of knowledge cognitive construction model gives implication on the future empirical studies as a part of taxonomy and the body knowledge of entrepreneurship. Key Words: Cognitive construction, opportunities introduction, opportunities exploitation, innovation, creativity, proactive, and risk taking.Abstrak: Pengetahuan kewirausahaan merupakan taksonomi yang memiliki konstruk yang kompleks dan luas. Kompleksitas dan keluasan pengetahuan kewirausahaan membutuhkan penyederhanaan konstruk untuk mencapai efektivitas pada sasaran kognitif yang dapat dipedomani sebagai learning outcome. Tujuan artikel ini untuk memodelkan secara konseptual bagaimana konstruk dan proses kognitif pengetahuan kewirausahaan dalam pembelajaran pada level pendidikan tinggi. Model konstruksi kognitif difokuskan pada variabel penting kewirausahaan antara lain (a) pengenalan peluang, (b) eksploitasi peluang (c) inovasi (d) proaktif dan (e) risk taking sebagai variabel utama yang menjelaskan konstruk kewirausahaan. Kajian konseptual menyimpulkan bahwauntuk melakukan konstruksi kognitif dari suatu proses pembelajaran dibutuhkan (1) konten apa yang akan dimaknai, (2) jenis representasi seperti apa yang dapat merefleksikan dan dijelaskan dalam dunia nyata, (3) referent, apa yang melatar belakangi terjadinya representasiterhadap makna konten (4) bagaimana konten berhubungan dengan konteks (relatedness) (5) bagaimana terjadinya interaksi antara konten, representasi, referent dan relatedness sehingga membentuk intensionalitas. Proses konstruksi kognitif menjadi bermakna jika terbangunnya intensionalitas sebagai sasaran pembelajaran. Model proposisi konstruksi kognitif

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Entrepreneurship Education in South Africa

Abstract: This paper discusses entrepreneurship education in

Cited by 44 publications

References 41 publications

Beyond entrepreneurship education: business incubation and entrepreneurial capabilities

Beyond entrepreneurship education: business incubation and entrepreneurial capabilities

Uptake of Efficient Marketing Strategies among Footwear and Textile Entrepreneurs in Alexandra Township

Model konstruksi kognitif metaphora kewirausahaan: pendekatan konseptual

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