A proposed model of technology awareness, self-leadership and business education students’ entrepreneurial mindset development

Abstract

Entrepreneurial mindset development has become an essential element in promoting students’ entrepreneurial activities, this brought about an increasing concern in the Nigerian tertiary education that the investment made in entrepreneurial education should be justified in terms of improved entrepreneurial mindset development. Thus, this study based its ground on the basis of integrating the model of prior empirical research by Shapero. and Sokol. (1982) and Cui., Sun., and Bell. (2019). Furthermore, the study proposed a model of technological awareness, self-leadership and business education students on entrepreneurial mindset development. The model strives business education students to compete in the global economy on the basis of technology awareness, self-leadership skills and many entrepreneurial knowledge/competencies by putting much emphasis on entrepreneurial mindset development. Hence, business education students are required to get the needed training for technological awareness and self-leadership skills that improve their entrepreneurial capabilities and competencies for mindset development. The model highlights a way forward for future researchers to examining the relationship that exists between technology awareness and self-leadership skills particularly on business education students’ entrepreneurial mindset development in the Nigerian tertiary institutions of learning. The proposed model is encouraging Nigerian tertiary institutions to face the realities of integrating the understudy variables by molding the students’ behaviour for better creativeness and innovation with the main aim of becoming self-reliant and reduce unemployment rate among the Nigerian students.