THE IMPACT OF TECHNOPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ON HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING IN BIDA METROPOLITAN

ABSTRACT

Education, blend of technology prowess and entrepreneurial skills are known to be the important drivers of Human capital Development and enterprise growth in many nations. Economic and social development of Nigeria is imbalance and this requires the contributions of individuals who have the rightful skills in both the public and the private sector to set up businesses, employ others and produce quality goods and services to remedy this challenge. The objective of this paper is to determine the extent to which technopreneurship education affect human capacity building with a specific focus on the areas of job creation and poverty reduction. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional survey research design, which allowed the collection of primary quantitative data through pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Stratified random sampling and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 60 Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). The findings indicate that effective technopreneurship education programme has a significant effect on poverty reduction and job creation. Based on the findings, it was therefore recommended that the Nigerian directorate of employment and industrial training fund should partner with the Central Bank of Nigeria for easy access to soft loans for a startup capital by the potential and prospective technopreneurs. The Government should establish more Business incubation and Entrepreneurship centers to equipped both potential technopreneurs and students to exposed them to the art of starting and nurturing a business, this will further create more jobs and reduce poverty

Keywords: Technopreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Job creation, Poverty Reduction