QUALITATIVE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS: A NECESSITY FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

An entrepreneur is someone who has an idea and who works to create a product or services that people buy, as well as an organization to support those efforts. Entrepreneurship is the science and process of creating, establishing, organizing and managing ventures with a view to satisfying human needs and desires, assuming the accompanying financial, psychological and social risks and receiving the resulting rewards of monetary and personal satisfaction and independence. Technology entrepreneurship is a style of business leadership based on the proofs of identifying high potential technology – intensive businesses opportunities, gathering resources such as talents and cash and managing rapid growth using principled, real time decision making skills. Technology entrepreneurship has inclination to technology education skills initiatives in Nigeria, as encapsulated in the National Policy on Education which outlined the goals and objectives of the Nigerian education generally and technology education in particular for sustainable national development. Technology education was introduced as part of the 6-3-3-4 system of education to address or response to outcry among beneficiaries of Nigeria education pertaining to the non-functionality of such educational system. However, owing to poor approach or poor implementation of technology education in terms of absence of standards, quality and performances holistically and simultaneously embraced in the course of implementation, technology education, appears to not have met the required expectation. This paper examines and suggests some instruments of qualitative technology education for national development as well as introduces technology entrepreneurship skills education as part of further innovations in Nigerian educational processes for sustainable national development.