Abstract:
Entrepreneurship education is imperative for economic development and new
economic strategies for fostering and generating jobs creating entrepreneurs.
This paper therefore assesses the influence of entrepreneurial abilities on self employment among technical graduates in Tanzania. It specifically identifies
the entrepreneurial skills acquired by technical graduates from technical
institutions and examined the influence of identified entrepreneurial skills on
self-employment among the technical graduates in Tanzania. This study was
approached quantitatively based on explanatory survey design. Data were
collected using questionnaire from 350 technical graduates sampled using
stratified simple random technique. The collected data were analysed using
Multiple Linear Regressions. The findings show that to a great extent graduates
from colleges and universities acquire technical entrepreneurial skills; business
management and to a small extent personal entrepreneurial skills. The findings
show further that business management was ranked highly as the leading
entrepreneurial skill for self-employment among technical graduates. All three
entrepreneurial skills were found to have positive and significant influence on
self-employment among technical graduates in Tanzania. The study recommends
that colleges, institutes and universities should emphatically inculcate all the
entrepreneurial skills to students as they have significant contributions to
graduates self-employment.
