Innovative Culture and Personal Values: Entrepreneurial Perspective from Graduating Students of Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract

Entrepreneurship edification had been indoctrinated in Nigerian university curriculum, yet many
graduates still find it challenging to be self-employed. This appeared to make university support
on entrepreneurship to students to be inadequate. Thus, the objective of this paper is to investigate
the impact of innovative culture, personal values on graduating students’ entrepreneurial tendency.
Survey research design was engaged with data from graduating undergraduates’ students of
Babcock, Covenant, Bells and Crawford Universities in Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique
was used, 394 questionnaires were administered but 379 were duly filled and found usable. The
descriptive statistics and regression analysis were employed as methods of data analysis. The result
indicated that university’s innovative culture does not have a significant effect on personal values
of the students to starting a business (R = 0.026, R
2 = 0.001, P=0.412>0.05). This paper therefore
concludes that private Universities in Nigeria need to be more supportive and encourage
entrepreneurial innovative culture.