Promoting Entrepreneurship to Reduce Graduate Unemployment

Katono, Isaac Wasswa

Apr 2022 · IGI Global

About this ebook

Based on recognition, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities, entrepreneurship is a process that stimulates economic growth, provides us with new products and services, and serves as a solution to low unemployment rates. Hence, many governments encourage their citizens to embrace entrepreneurship as a strategy to mitigate unemployment, particularly youth and graduate unemployment. While studies show that entrepreneurship education has yielded positive results in Western countries, in other parts of the world it seems that most students still prefer to seek paid employment in their career of choice.

Promoting Entrepreneurship to Reduce Graduate Unemployment seeks to expand understanding of the barriers that face graduates in becoming entrepreneurs in various countries, examining the role of educational institutions in promoting graduate entrepreneurship and evaluating governments as well as other schemes that promote graduate entrepreneurship. Although it will not be a panacea for all the obstacles that impede graduate entrepreneurship, it is hoped that this book will illuminate the entrepreneurship career path, serve as a platform for further diagnosis for reducing graduate unemployment, and highlight areas in need of further research. Covering topics such as entrepreneurial self-efficacy, career choice, and educated unemployment, it serves as a dynamic resource for educators, educational administration and faculty, government institutions, graduate students, student organizations, professionals, researchers, and academicians.

About the author

Isaac Wasswa Katono holds a BSc. (Agriculture) Rural Economy and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Marketing Option, both from Makerere University. He holds a PhD in Business Science (Entrepreneurship) of the University of Cape Town. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business at Uganda Christian University. Prior to that, Isaac was the Associate Dean Faculty of Business and Administration, Uganda Christian University 2010 to 2016 as well as Head, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship 2012 to 2016. He participated in the development of modules for the Student Training in Entrepreneurship Promotion (STEP) project at the University of Giessen in 2008, and has since been a trainer in this program in Uganda and other countries since then to date. His research interest is Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management and Gender. Isaac is a reviewer for a number of international journals. He has attended and presented papers in several international conferences, and has published works in the area of Entrepreneurship and Management plus other related areas. [Editor]