POWERING CREATIVITY WITH TECHNOPRENEURSHIP: A CASE STUDY OF THE POLYTECHNIC IBADAN

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. According to Norton, there is an alarming statistics about the growth of malicious cyber activity. In addition, two of three adults online are victims of cybercrime, 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 37 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