Managerial Potentials as Determinants of Students' Entrepreneurial Self Reliance in Technical Colleges

Abstract

Technical Colleges are set up to equip students with entrepreneurship and managerial skills for them to be self-reliant and be able to manage their business enterprise after graduation. In this study, the author examined the extent to which students' managerial potentials such as creativity, risk management skills, and ability to raise capital can predict entrepreneurship self-reliance of Technical College students. In all, 581 students consisting of 490 males and 91 females were purposively sampled from the five Technical Colleges in Oyo State, Nigeria. Results showed that only sourced or raised capital (â= -.113, p < 0.05) had significant relationship with entrepreneurship self-reliance of students in Technical Colleges, while risk management potential and creativity had no significant relationship. Therefore, teachers in Technical Colleges should strengthen the capital sourcing potentials of their students.