The Innovative Roles of Entrepreneurial Catalyst to the Growth of New Ventures in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Center for Enterprise Development and Action Research

The study focuses only on the micro and small enterprise development which is in alignment with the conference's sub-themes. The study provides an avenue to explore the efforts of CEDAR in the growth of new ventures in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship, innovation and business growth have received scholarly attention over the years and have gone through many panels of discussions. Through this paper, a deeper investigation was made to identify the Innovative Roles of Entrepreneurial Catalyst to the Growth of New Ventures in Nigeria. The study specifically sought to; know how CEDAR has been able to help new enterprises to sprout up; ascertain the strategies being used by the CEDAR to grow the new ventures, via her micro and small enterprise development and micro-financing programmes. It is qualitative by making use of a semi-structured instrument (Aruleba, Olanipekun, Ayodele, & Adeagbo, 2019; Flanagan, Greenfield, Coad, & Neilson, 2015) as this would allow for the free flow of the respondents’ feelings, views and avoid manipulation. The qualitative study adopted a non-probability judgmental sampling technique to ascertain the key informants for the collection of soft data (recorded interview). The study concluded that new enterprises have been put up and supported to be birthed by various strategies employed by the CEDAR, since her inception in 1996. It, therefore, recommended that social organizations/enterprises and other non-profit making organizations should look inwardly in their various environment, in other to fill the gap that CEDAR has been filling across Africa

Raising Employability Bar and Building Entrepreneurial Capacity in Youth: A Case Study of National Social Investment Programme in Nigeria

 Nigeria is no doubt currently among the countries embattled with a high rate of unemployment. Due to the present economic challenges, which have lasted over a decade. To examine the impact level of the social investment programme on the beneficiaries, qualitative research was carried out and the instrument was structured on complete open-ended, by one-one interview and online platforms (Whatsapp and Facebook groups). N-teach (150,000 beneficiaries), N-health (20,000 beneficiaries) and N-agro beneficiaries (30,000 beneficiaries) of batch A 2016 constituted the population, with a calculated sample size of 399. The sustainability level of N-power programme was also ascertained as the difference between the average initial sample size and adjustable sample sizes were roughly similar while testing at margin error of 5, 10, 15 and 20% using 95% confidence level. The findings of the study reveal that micro-businesses such as fishery, piggery, provision store, computer business centres and among others have been established with the aid of the monthly stipend and entrepreneurial skills have been acquired through the devices given and daily exposure at work. It however, recommended that the programme should be adopted by every regime at both the state and national level. The batch A beneficiaries who are likely at the exit stage, should either be giving seed capital and the remaining, permanent job. Also, the government should as a matter of sporadic reduction in social vices and the creation of more businesses should expand the scope of the programme

The Innovative Roles of Entrepreneurial Catalyst to the Growth of New Ventures in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Center for Enterprise Development and Action Research

The study focuses only on the micro and small enterprise development which is in alignment with the conference's sub-themes. The study provides an avenue to explore the efforts of CEDAR in the growth of new ventures in Nigeria. Entrepreneurship, innovation and business growth have received scholarly attention over the years and have gone through many panels of discussions. Through this paper, a deeper investigation was made to identify the Innovative Roles of Entrepreneurial Catalyst to the Growth of New Ventures in Nigeria. The study specifically sought to; know how CEDAR has been able to help new enterprises to sprout up; ascertain the strategies being used by the CEDAR to grow the new ventures, via her micro and small enterprise development and micro-financing programmes. It is qualitative by making use of a semi-structured instrument (Aruleba, Olanipekun, Ayodele, & Adeagbo, 2019; Flanagan, Greenfield, Coad, & Neilson, 2015) as this would allow for the free flow of the respondents’ feelings, views and avoid manipulation. The qualitative study adopted a non-probability judgmental sampling technique to ascertain the key informants for the collection of soft data (recorded interview). The study concluded that new enterprises have been put up and supported to be birthed by various strategies employed by the CEDAR, since her inception in 1996. It, therefore, recommended that social organizations/enterprises and other non-profit making organizations should look inwardly in their various environment, in other to fill the gap that CEDAR has been filling across Africa