THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The role of indigenous vocational training in the development of entrepreneurship has been examined in this paper. The paper highlighted the concept and functions of entrepreneurship: creativity and innovation for self-employment and profitable venturing. The paper also gives a brief historical perspective of indigenous vocational training and different types of entrepreneurial activities that are taking place in form of crafts and trades. The authors recommend that government should reinvigorate the indigenous vocational training and apprenticeship system of training alongside with vocational technical education in order to enhance the speed in which the country moves towards it ambitious goal to become one of the world’s top 20 economies in 2020.