IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

Delineating the Awareness of Entrepreneurship Issues and Required Interventions from Educational Institutions

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Vivek Singh, Zainab Sharief and Vimal Pant

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Introduction: Entrepreneurial learning promotes innovations, creativity, the ability to do the work and adopting the key changes and self-efficiency of the individual person that helps him/her to develop their self-confidence as a good entrepreneur. College and universities are significant institutions that help the students to build their basic characteristics as entrepreneurs and develop the features that help to get positive outcomes. By identifying the key challenges, understanding the overcome strategies and pointing out the key factors to achieving the activities the educational institution can provide better guidance that helps the students to develop their features as good entrepreneurs in future. This statement has mentioned the rationale of this research paper and the development of the study of this topic. Currently, it is found that a majority of the students lack pertaining willingness to step up and adapt entrepreneurship. Rather, a large chunk of students is more inclined to find a viable employment. Against this backdrop, the current study particularly focuses on delineating the awareness of the entrepreneurship issues and required interventions from educational institutions. For addressing this goal, the study has adopted a quantitative survey method wherein data is acquired from food technology students themselves to assess their awareness regarding entrepreneurship issues and need for intervention from educational institutions. Results confirm that food technology students do have awareness pertaining to entrepreneurial issues along with positive attitude and intent entrepreneurship. Previous research has been largely conducted to evaluate need for entrepreneurship education, the current study particularly helps in outlining the ground level challenges and the eminence of educational institutions in promotion of entrepreneurship empirically.

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