Technopreneurship and Unemployment amongst Nigerian Youths in a Pandemic Era

Authors

  • Dumo Nkesi Opara
  • Sarah Nna-Emmanuel

Keywords:

Technopreneurship, App development and Online advertising/marketing, unemployed

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the extent to which Technopreneurship stands out as a panacea for unemployment amongst Nigerian youths in a post covid era. Three (3) research hypotheses guided the study.  Correlational survey design was adopted.  The population of the study consisted of 1692 graduates of three departments (OTM, BAM & MKT) from Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic in the past three years (2017-2019). A total of 750 of these students were selected as the sample for the study.  Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and an overall coefficient of 0.76 was obtained.  Data collected were all imputed into SPSS version 21, Pearson’s product moment correlation was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.  All hypotheses were rejected and alternative hypotheses stated as P-values were less than 0.05 level of significance.  Findings revealed that App development and Online advertising/marketing have significant impact on the level of unemployment among youths in Nigeria. It was recommended that our youths should be encouraged to take up Technopreneurship as the remedy for the high level of unemployment in Nigeria.

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Published

31-03-2022

How to Cite

Opara, D. N., & Nna-Emmanuel, S. (2022). Technopreneurship and Unemployment amongst Nigerian Youths in a Pandemic Era. Nigerian Academy of Management Journal, 17(1), 169–177. Retrieved from http://namj.tamn-ng.org/index.php/home/article/view/175