Open AccessEntrepreneurship Education --- An Alternative Route to Alleviating Unemployment and the Influence of Gender: An Analysis of University Level Students’ Entrepreneurial Business Ideas
Author(s) -
Zuvarashe Judith Mushipe
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of business administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-4015
pISSN - 1923-4007
DOI - 10.5430/ijba.v4n2p1
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , unemployment , product (mathematics) , gross domestic product , entrepreneurial education , entrepreneurship education , economics , business education , marketing , female entrepreneurs , demographic economics , higher education , sociology , business , classical economics , economic growth , finance , geometry , mathematics
The study addresses the concept of entrepreneurship education and the influence of gender on entrepreneurship based on the longitudinal survey on entrepreneurial interest of University of Zimbabwe students. The study that covered a period of three years compared the male and female students’ entrepreneurial interest based on the nature of business plans they wrote; and the results show that the male students have a higher entrepreneurship interest than female students. Besides, if the business ideas were to be implemented, the male students’ businesses would require more capital outlay, would be riskier and would have more economic impact in the way of employment creation and contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than the female students’ business ideas