Contextual perspectives on socio-economically focused entrepreneurship programmes in Nigeria

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Entrepreneurship is viewed as key to solving socio-economic problem of youth unemployment. Context(s), impacts various aspects of entrepreneurship developments, but there is limited discourse focusing on the temporal-spatial contextual understanding which adopts historical entrepreneurship institutional dimensions like post-colonialism to highlight entrepreneurship programmes implementation. This study applied historical post-colonial entrepreneurship institutional lens in exploring socio-economically focused entrepreneurship programmes implementation in Nigeria, in relation to how entrepreneurship education, funding and social infrastructure provisions influence youth behaviours towards transitioning to entrepreneurship related activities. It adopted qualitative research approach by drawing data from in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted across 60 research participants, insights were also supported by documentary evidence. This strategy enabled the research to present a contextualized understanding of the framework, key actors and roles across the constitutional, organisational, intermediate and entrepreneur layers of entrepreneurship institution in Nigeria. This research contributes to the constellation of debates on entrepreneurship contextualization and presents an uncommon contextual insight into the post-colonial entrepreneurship institutional contexts by deriving from (pre)existing historical institutional antecedents, heritage and relationships.

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