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1. Powering creativity with
Technopreneurship: A
case study of the
Polytechnic Ibadan
1Abdulhameed Idris Adedamola
2Adeniran Abiodun Ademola
3Enwerem Udochukwu
4Abdulrahim K. Abdulwasiu
abdulhameed.adedamola@polyibadan.edu.ng

2.  1Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship
Study Centre, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
 2Department of Civil Engineering
Technology, The Polytechnic, Ibadan
 3Department of Computer Science, Federal
University of Technology, Owerri
AFFILIATION

4. ABSTRACT
 Technopreneurship is undoubtedly trendy globally today. From Microsoft to
eBay, Amazon and so on, the world relies on it to make their ends meet.
Undoubtedly, there is an alarming statistics about the growth of malicious
cyber activity. In addition, two of three adults online are victims of cyber
crime, but through technopreneurship, this will become a thing of the past, in
addition to educating the youths on small scale enterprises and how to be a
better entrepreneur. The method used for this research is consultation of the
Vocational Skills and Entrepreneurship Study Centre Web design material, in
addition to other literature for facts finding. The result shows that there are
lots of works to be done as per technopreneurship according to the thirty
seven (37) (N, D.Y, & S.O.O, 2014) students interviewed in class and 50
respondents from survey. However, some are into branding already so they
needed some mentorship to be better. The paper concludes by recommending
the skills and education to the students to make them employers of labour
rather than job seekers
Keyword: VSESC, technopreneurship, employer, youth, Microsoft, cyber, job
seekers

5. INTRODUCTION/LIT -REVIEW
 The Centre was established in compliance
with the Federal Government's initiative
through NBTE
(http://polyibadanvsesc.com/)
 Entrepreneurship Development Centres
(EDC)
 Graduates unemployment crises
 Self-employed
 Productive members of the society

6. INTRODUCTION
 According to Okorie et al. (2014), there is
high correlation between Technological
development and entrepreneurship.
 Becoming a prosperous society begins
with the attitude of the citizenry such as
tertiary school students (N, D.Y, & S.O.O,
2014).

7. INTRO CNT’D
 The Vocational Skills and
Entrepreneurship Study Centre or the
Polytechnic Ibadan provides lots of skills
to the consumption of the students and
outsiders like website design and software
development (Mukaila,2021)

8.  The Federal Government of Nigeria
through the National Board for Technical
Education (NBTE) mandate
entrepreneurship skills acquisition by
students before graduation.
 In fact, it is one of the criteria for
accreditation; hence, NBTE has tied
entrepreneurship to accreditation (The
Nation, 2021).

9. INTRO CNT’D
 In addition, following the high rate of
unemployment and high incidence of
poverty in Nigeria (Nigeria
entrepreneurship Initiative, 2009;
Ewhrudjakpor, 2008), the need for
technopreneurship education in our higher
Institutions cannot be over-emphasised.

10. RELATED WORKS
Iwuagwu et al. (2016)
appraised entrepreneurship
education in the department
of architecture, Abia state
Polytechnic, Aba where a
population of 173 was
involved in the research.

11.  The students were grouped into two: HND
II and ND II and exposed to EED 413 and
EED 216 (Entrepreneurship Development
and Introduction to Entrepreneurship
education) respectively.

12.  After distributing questionnaires to the
respondents, the result showed that the
students were not exposed to practical-
oriented skills that tally with their specific
field of learning.

13.  The Nigerian Tibune (11 Jan. 2021) reported that
the media had been used to disseminate
information and therefore, president of a group
Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin made a call in a signed
statement titled: “free Sowore, others now! She
said there had been alleged torture and
maltreatment of the SaharaReporters publisher,
Sowore”
 However, the importance of entrepreneurship
amongst others is:
 network expansion through Discos (Electricity
distribution) (EEDC, 2021)
 electronic raffle draw

14. METHODOLOGY
 Surveying method was employed in the
paper. This adapted the model used by
Iwuagwu et al (2016). The questionnaire
captured data of the respondents – all of
whom were students in the Polytechnic,
Ibadan.

15.  After the design, it was checked for error
and distributed across the WhatsApp
platform of the ND 1 and ND 2 computer
engineering technology classes, in
addition to the EED class through their
representatives (see appendix).

16. RESULT/DISCUSSION
 Fifty respondents submitted the form,
and the results are as shown below:
 Having received the inputs from 50
respondents, a descriptive chart was
used to represent the responses

20. DISCUSSION
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21. CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION
 The need for entrepreneurship studies
cannot be over emphasised. However,
there is need to update the resources at
the VSECS centre of the polytechnic in the
Website design class. Some of the missing
requirements are projectors, power
supply and laptops/desktops for practical
in addition to improvement in the
remuneration of instructors.

22. REFERENCES
 Nigerian Tribune (2021) Women Arise to FG: Free Sowore, others now. Accessed from hardcopy
version of the Paper - www.tribuneonlineng.com, 17711, pp. 5
 Mukaila, M. (2021) The Polytechnic, Ibadan Vocational Skills Entrepreneurship Study Centre (VSECS)
Technical Manual on Website design and software development, AMS prints, pp.1-20
 The Nation (2021) NBTE ties entrepreneurship to accreditation, Retrieved online from
www.thenationonlineng.net on 28th March, 2021
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 Iwuagwu, B.U., Iwuagwu, B.C. and Onyegiri, I. (2016) An Appraisal of Entrepreneurship Education
 Curriculum in Departments of Architecture in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions: a study of Abia State
Polytechnic, Aba, Nigeria, International Advanced Journal of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 63-
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 Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (2021) 30 Network Expansion Projects, Accessed from hardcopy
version of the Paper - www.tribuneonlineng.com, 17711, pp. 5
 http://polyibadanvsesc.com/
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23. APPENDIX

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